John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 9. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel , etc.] As an instance of his boldness, courage, and impartiality, he begins with the principal men of the land, and charges them with sins, and reproves for them, and denounces judgments on account of them; (see Gill on “ Micah 3:1”); that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity ; a sad character of princes, rulers, and judges, who not only ought to know but to love judgment, justice, and equity, and do them; even take delight and pleasure in the distribution of them to everyone, and in every cause that came before them; but, instead of this, hated to do that which was right and just; and perverted all the rules and laws of justice and equity, clearing the guilty, and condemning the innocent.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-12 - Zion's walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with blood an iniquity. The sin of man works not the righteousness of God. Even when men do that which in itself is good, but do it for filthy lucre, it becomes abomination both to God and man. Faith rests in the Lord as the soul's foundation: presumption only leans upon the Lord as a prop, an would use him to serve a turn. If men's having the Lord among them wil not keep them from doing evil, it never can secure them from sufferin evil for so doing. See the doom of wicked Jacob; Therefore shall Zio for your sake be ploughed as a field. This was exactly fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and is so at this day. I sacred places are polluted by sin, they will be wasted and ruined by the judgments of God _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew שׁמעו8085 נא4994 זאת2063 ראשׁי7218 בית1004 יעקב3290 וקציני7101 בית1004 ישׂראל3478 המתעבים8581 משׁפט4941 ואת853 כל3605 הישׁרה3477 יעקשׁו׃6140
