3:1–12 Present Leaders Denounced. The abuse of power (vv. 1–4) and flagrant misuse of prophetic office (vv. 5–8) is followed by a general indictment of the leadership, followed by the sentence (vv. 9–12). 3:1–4 Judgment against the Heads of Jacob. Micah describes the depraved character of the civil leaders using the gruesome imagery of cannibalism. 3:1–2a Is it not for you to know justice? Delighting in God’s law and discerning what is right should be the joy of those given judicial responsibility