Micah

one of the minor prophets of the Old Testament, a contemporary of Isaiah, Hosea, and Amos; his prophecies are in the same strain as those of Isaiah, and numerous are the coincidences traceable between them; though a great sternne of temper and severity of tone appears in his prophecies, a deep tenderne of heart from time to time reveals itself, and a winning persuasivene (chap. vi. 8); chap. vii. 8-20 has been quoted as one of the sweetest pa ages of prophetic writing; his prophecies predict the destruction both of Samaria and Jerusalem, the captivity and the return, with the re-establishment of the theocracy, and the advent of the Me iah.