Micah 7:1-3 - Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well

7:1

Micah now starts feeling sorry for himself. Sometimes we think that we must never feel down or depressed, never let God know how we really feel. Yet the Bible is full of examples of people who let God know how they really felt. The Psalms are full of this, Job is a textbook on complaining to God. Elijah just wanted to die, Jeremiah thought it was all too much. Jonah thought God had got it really wrong with Nineveh. We could go on. However, there is a key difference between the examples we find in the Bible and the current mania of self-centeredness that is so prevalent in the world today. The world says this is how I am feeling and you must respond to my feelings, my feelings must rule. In the Bible people were honest about their feelings, but they knew it was they who needed to change, not God. For instance, Job eventually gets to meet God, but it is then Job who must repent, and who is made aware of the realities of life.

7:2,3

It seems as if there is no fruit, no harvest to be had. There are no faithful ones left in the land. Remember that Elijah felt much the same, complaining that he was the only faithful one left (he wasn't). However, unfaithfulness was indeed rife. People were out to get each other. This could be said to be a pretty accurate picture of the social media world today. The state does not administer justice, but rulers were in it for themselves, demanding bribes from the people. They did not administer God’s law, but their own desires.