58. Hence again the divine Micah, unable to
brook the building of Zion with blood, however you interpret the
phrase, and of Jerusalem with iniquity, while the heads thereof judge
for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for
money—what does he say will be the result of this? Zion
shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem be as a lodge in a garden,
and the mountain of the house be reckoned as a glade in a
thicket. Mic. iii. 10–12. He bewails
also the scarcity of the upright, there being scarcely a stalk or a
gleaning grape left, since both the prince asketh, and the judge
curries favour, Ib. vii.
1–4. so that his
language is almost the same as the mighty David’s: Save me,
O Lord, for the godly man ceaseth: Ps. xii. 1. and says
that therefore their blessings shall fail them, as if wasted by the
moth.