Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
He confirms the same thing in the next verse, And ashamed shall be the seers and confounded the diviners, רסמים, μαντεις, Sept. fatidici, sootsayers, diviners. It is used generally in a bad sense, while חזים, seers is commonly used in a good sense; but here both words denote pretenders, the false prophets. — Ed. and they shall cover their lip; that is they will put veils on their mouths.
The word of God reproves even the greatest men, and ministers must apply those reproofs faithfully. Princes are called to know and do justice impartially; their sin is the more provoking because they transgress against knowledge, with means and excuse that others lack.
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Commenting on Micah 3:1-7
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded,.... When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they will not be able to lift up their heads, or show their faces, but shame and confusion will cover them: yea, they shall all cover their lips; stop their mouths, hold their tongues...