1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism, because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 sn The coming of night (and darkness in the following line) symbolizes the cessation of revelation. 16 sn The reading of omens (Heb “divination”) was forbidden in the law (Deut 18:10), so this probably reflects the prophets’ view of how they received divine revelation. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38