Micah:3

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* Verse 1-8 - Men cannot expect to do ill , and fare well ; but to find that done to them which they did to others . How seldom do wholesome truths reach the ears of those in high stations or in authority ! Those who deceive others are preparing confusion for their own faces . The prophet had ardent love to God and to the souls of men ; deep concern for his glory and their salvation , and zeal against sin . The difficulties he met with did not drive him from his work . He had this strength ; not from and of himself , but he was full of power by the Spirit of the Lord . Those who act honestly , may act boldly . And those who come to hear the word of God , must be willing to be told of their faults , must take it kindly , and be thankful . * Verse 9-12 - Zion 's walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with blood and iniquity . The sin of man works not the righteousness of God . Even when men do that which in itself is good , but do it for filthy lucre , it becomes abomination both to God and man . Faith rests in the Lord as the soul 's foundation : presumption only leans upon the Lord as a prop , and would use him to serve a turn . If men 's having the Lord among them will not keep them from doing evil , it never can secure them from suffering evil for so doing . See the doom of wicked Jacob ; Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field . This was exactly fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans , and is so at this day . If sacred places are polluted by sin , they will be wasted and ruined by the judgments of God . **** Matthew Henry 's Commentary ****

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