The internal disorders of the realm...

THE internal disorders of the realm depicted by Micah are also prominent in Isaiah's prophecies; they were closely connected, not only with the foreign complications due to the approach of the Assyrians, but also with the break-up of the old agrarian system within Israel, and with the rapid and uncompensated aggrandisement of the nobles during those prosperous years when the conquest of Edom by Amaziah and the occupation of the port of Elath by his son placed the lucrative trade between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea in the hands of the rulers of Judah. On the other hand, the democratic tone which distinguishes Micah from Isaiah is explained by the fact that Micah's home was not in the capital but in an insignificant country town. He can contemplate without a shudder the ruin of the capital of the aristocracy because he is himself one of the oppressed people. . . . Yahwe's words are still good to those that walk uprightly; the "glory of Israel" is driven to take refuge in Adullam, as in the days when David's band of broken men was the true hope of the nation; but there is no hint that it is banished from the land. Thus upon the prophecy of judgment we naturally expect to follow a prophecy of the reintegration of Yahwe's kingship in a better Israel, and this we find.—From The Encyclopædia Biblica.