Jer 8:3, Mic 2:3 | JFB | STEP | 3. The survivors shall be still worse off than the dead ( ). which remain in all the places —"in all places of them that remain, whither I . . . that is, in all places whither I have driven them that remain [MAURER ].

Jeremiah 8:3

3. The survivors shall be still worse off than the dead (Job 3:21, 22; Re 9:6).

which remain in all the places—"in all places of them that remain, whither I . . . that is, in all places whither I have driven them that remain [MAURER].

Micah 2:3

3. against this family—against the nation, and especially against those reprobated in Mic 2:1, 2.

I devise an evil—a happy antithesis between God's dealings and the Jews' dealings (Mic 2:1). Ye "devise evil" against your fellow countrymen; I devise evil against you. Ye devise it wrongfully, I by righteous retribution in kind.

from which ye shall not remove your necks—as ye have done from the law. The yoke I shall impose shall be one which ye cannot shake off. They who will not bend to God's "easy yoke" (Mt 11:29, 30), shall feel His iron yoke.

go haughtily—(Compare Note, see on Jer 6:28). Ye shall not walk as now with neck haughtily uplifted, for the yoke shall press down your "neck."

this time is evil—rather, "for that time shall be an evil time," namely, the time of the carrying away into captivity (compare Am 5:13; Eph 5:16).