They shall cover their lips - Literally, the hair of the upper lip. This was an action enjoined on lepers (Leviticus 13:45), and…

They shall all cover their lips. —As the lepers, who were cut off from all communication with men, so also these false pr…

God declares here to the false teachers by the mouth of Micah, that He would inflict punishment on them, so that they would be exposed to the repro…

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded ,
&c.] When the events of things will make it most clea…

People cannot expect to do wrong and fare well; but should expect to find done to them what they did to others. How rarely do wholesome truths reac…