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Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-106) and index.

Introduction -- Micah: some preliminaries -- The course of Micah studies -- Micah as prophet of a new age -- The form of the book of Micah -- Jeremiah 26 and Micah -- The text of Micah -- Poetic form in Micah -- 1:1 The heading -- 1:2-7 The wrath to come on Samaria -- 1:8-9 Lament as the disaster spreads -- 1:10-16 Lament over the towns of Judah -- 2:1-5 Against those who steal land -- 2:6-11 Enemies of the people -- 2:12-13 The shepherd-king and his flock -- 3:1-4 The courts as cannibals -- 3:5-8 False prophets and a real prophet -- 3:9-12 Zion shall be plowed as a field -- 4:1-5 The kingdom to come -- 4:6-7 The kingdom of the survivors -- 4:8 Restoration of sovereignty as at first -- 4:9-10 -- Human failure and divine help -- 4:11-13 The defeat of the nation -- 4:14 A fragment: humiliation of the king -- 5:1-4a [2-5a] Return of the king of peace -- 5:4b-5 [5b-6] Imperial dream -- 5:6-8 [7-9] The irresistible survivors -- 5:9-14 [10-15] The preparatory purging -- 6:1-8 A covenant lawsuit: the whole duty of mankind -- 6:9-16 A curse on the cheating city -- 7:1-7 Injustice: its own punishment -- 7:8-20 A closing liturgy of hope.