3:1 Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?
3:2 You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones;
3:3 Who also eat the flesh of My people, flay their skin from them, break their bones, and chop them into pieces like meat for the pot, like flesh for the cauldron.
3:5 Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who make my people stray...
3:6 ...the day shall be dark for them.
3:7 ...the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners abashed;
3:8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
See also
Exodus 35:6-7 —
And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation."
Observations
Here is an injust people
God equips Micah to call them on it — obviously not right away because they’re already neck deep in wickedness
God does not intervene in injustice right away
He lets you walk down a bad path for a while before strongly intervening
God is patient
Things God Does
and other interpretations
God stands for justice
God does not force me to listen to His warnings, but He may bring severe consequences if I fail to listen for too long
He doesn’t promise that I’ll never sin now that I know Him
He doesn’t promise that I can sin without consequences
He may even be the one to bring those consequences
God’s instructions for justice and righteousness are not negotiable
Application
Listen attentively to God, and obey Him, because:
His advice is good
It is possible for me to ignore Him for a time, to my peril