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The prophet Micah lived in dark times. He was one of a small remnant of faithful believers living in a godless society where corruption and violence were rife, the vulnerable were the victims of exploitation and the religious leaders failed to speak out against the people’s sin, but instead gave them the message they wanted to hear. Micah often seemed to be a lone voice as he faithfully...

‘wind’. Micah may be implying that these pseudo-prophets who go around claiming to be men of the Spirit (with the Spirit of God directing their prophecy) are really nothing but wind. They are simply windbags.50 And they ‘utter lies’ (literally, ‘he lies a falsehood’). The term for ‘lies’, or ‘falsehood’, is šeqer; his word for ‘beer’, or ‘liquor’, in the next line, is šēkār, and Micah may want us to divine a word-play. Of course, it is hard to anglicize. A rough attempt might be: ‘He utters falsehood
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