and indeed as the proper agenda of God. That agenda has been on God’s mind since the exodus. Third, address to leadership and concern for economics make clear that Micah is making a critique of the system of social control. This is not poetry that simply strikes out at a specific act. It is a much more sustained analysis based on the legal precedent of the torah to show that the entire social system is wrongly directed. So the invitation to do justice is in a context of the systemic power of evil.