Albert Barnes Commentary Micah 3:9

"Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity." — Micah 3:9 (ASV)

Hear this, I urge you—the prophet discharges upon them that “judgment” of which, by the Spirit of God, he was full, and which they “abhorred”—judgment against their perversion of judgment. He rebukes the same classes as before, “the heads and judges” (Micah 3:1), yet still more sternly.

They abhorred judgment, he says, as a thing loathsome and abominable, such that people cannot bear even to look upon it. They not only dealt wrongly, but they “perverted, distorted, all equity”—indeed, “that so there should not remain even some slight justice in the city.” “All equity”—all of every sort: right, rectitude, uprightness, straightforwardness, whatever was right by natural conscience or by God’s law—they distorted, like the sophists making the worse appear the better cause.

Naked violence crushes the individual; perversion of equity destroys the very source of justice. The prophet turns from them in these words, as one who could not bear to look upon their misdeeds and who would not speak to them; they pervert; building; her heads, her priests, her prophets; as Elisha, were it not for the presence of Jehoshaphat, would not look on Jehoram, nor see him (2 Kings 3:14). He first turns and speaks of them as one, as if they were all united in evil.