of chapter 2. We do not accept van der Woude’s theory that the oracles in chapter 3 are Micah’s response to a false prophecy in 2:12–13. There is nothing in chapter 3 to indicate that it was intended to contradict 2:12–13. The invocation in v 1a is a poetic bicolon perfect in every way. The balance is good, whether measured by beats (3 : 3) or syllables (7 : 8). The parallelism is classical, a parade example of Gray’s “incomplete synonymous parallelism with rhythmic compensation.”