Verse 10
10. (Micah 2:6; Micah 2:11; Micah 3:5).
See not—as you now do, foretelling misfortune.
Prophesy not . . . right things—Not that they avowedly requested this, but their conduct virtually expressed it. No man, professedly, wished to be deceived; but many seek a kind of teaching which is deceit; and which, if they would examine, they might know to be such (Micah 3:5- :). The Jews desired success to be foretold as the issue of their league with Egypt, though ill had been announced by God's prophet as the result; this constituted the "deceits."
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