Albert Barnes Commentary Micah 7:2

"The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net." — Micah 7:2 (ASV)

The good – or godly, or merciful, as the English margin notes.

Man – The Hebrew word contains all. It is “he who loves tenderly and piously” God, for His own sake, and man, for the sake of God. Mercy was probably chiefly intended, since it was to this that the prophet had exhorted, and the sins which he proceeds to speak of are against this. But imaginary love of God without love of man, or love of man without the love of God, is mere self-deceit.

Is perished out of the earth; that is, by an untimely death. The good had either been withdrawn by God from the evil to come (Isaiah 57:1), or had been cut off by those who laid wait for blood. In that case, their death brought a double evil: through the guilt such sin incurred, and then, through the loss of those who might be an example to others and whose prayers God would hear.

The loving and upright—all who were men of mercy and truth—had ceased. Those who were left all lie in wait for blood (literally, bloods, that is, bloodshedding); all, as far as man can see, as Elijah complains that he was left alone.

Amid the vast number of the wicked, the righteous were as though they were not. Isaiah, at the same time, complains of like sins, and that it was as though there were no righteous people: Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth (Isaiah 59:2–3).

Indirectly or directly, they destroyed life. To violence they add treachery.

The good and loving had perished, and all is now violence; the upright had ceased, and all now is deceit. They hunt every man his brother with a net. Every man is the brother of every other man, because he is human, born of the same first parent, children of the same Father; yet they lay in wait for one another, as hunters for wild beasts (Psalms 57:7; Psalms 140:6; Jeremiah 5:26).