Charles Ellicott Commentary Micah 3:1

"And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?" — Micah 3:1 (ASV)

Hear, I pray you. —In the second division of his prophecy, Micah protests against the evil influences affecting the people from high places. The princes, the prophets, and the priests, to whom their interests were entrusted, were guilty of wrong, oppression, and robbery.

Ye princes. —Rather, judges, magistrates; but a different word is used than the one that was given to the chiefs in the old days “when the judges ruled.”