the integrity of Israel’s faith.”47 Micah appears to have had a threefold purpose: first, to present the nature of God’s complaint against his covenant people (1:2–7; 2:6–11; 3:1–4, 9–12; 6:1–16); second, to proclaim the Lord’s certain punishment of their many sins (3:8); and third, to predict God’s sure salvation to come, centering in the appearance of the Davidic Messianic Deliverer (5:2). E. R. Clendenen has noted the absence in Micah of an instruction message or exhortation as is typical of