Micah 7:2 (DRB)

Passage

The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Nearby Context

Micah 7:1 Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the first ripe figs.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Micah 7:4 He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "holy", "perished", "earth", "none", "upright", "wait", "blood", and "hunteth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "holy" and "perished", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Woe is me for I am become..." into verse 3's "The evil of their hands they call...", so "holy" and "perished" belong inside that flow. In Micah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "holy" and "perished" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.