Micah 7:6

dishonoureth Lit. -treateth as a fool." The same verb in the same form occurs in Deuteronomy 32:6. It is unsafe however to argue that Deuteronomy must have been already written in the time of Micah, for we also find the word in Jeremiah 14:21; Nahum 3:6.

Micah 7:7. Here the thread of thought is broken; the following verses appear to have been attached later. The speaker is, indeed, still the true Israel; but here she appears already overpowered by her enemies, whereas in Micah 7:1 the day of chastisement was still far off. Here, accordingly, consolation is the chief object of the prophetic writer; in the earlier passage, he had to warn his people of the still future calamity. In its tone this section reminds us of the Book of Israel's Consolation which follows on chap. 37 of the Book of Isaiah.