Micah 3:4

“Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them, etc.] When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding chapters shall come upon them; when the enemy shall invade their hind, besiege their cities, and take them, and they, their families and substance, just ready to fall into their hands, they shall cry unto the Lord; or pray unto him, as the Targum, in the time of their distress; but he will not hear their prayer, so as to answer it according to their desire; that is, he will not save them from imminent danger, but deliver them up, them, and all that belong unto them, into the hands of such that shall use them as they have done others: he will even hide his face from…”

“Then--at the time of judgment, which Micah takes for granted, so certain is it (compare Mic 2:3). they cry . . . but he will not hear--just as those oppressed by them had formerly cried, and they would not hear. Their prayer shall be rejected, because it is the mere cry of nature for deliverance from pain, not that of repentance for deliverance from sin. ill in their doings--Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well.”

“Then shall they cry unto the Lord - “Then.” The prophet looks on to the Day of the Lord, which is always before his mind. So the Psalmist, speaking of a time or place not expressed, says, “There were they in great fear” Psalms 53:5. He sees it, points to it, as seeing what those to whom he spoke, saw not, and the more awfully, because he saw, with superhuman (certain) vision, what was “hidden from their eyes.” The then was not then, “in the time of grace,” but when the Day of grace should be over, and the Day of Judgment should be come. So of that day, when judgment should set in, God says in Jeremiah, “Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to go forth of, and they…”

“Then - When these miseries come upon them. Micah 3:5”

“3:4 Then: Even after oppressing the Lord’s people, the leaders would selfishly beg for help from the Lord.”

“Then: Mic 2:3, Mic 2:4; Jer 5:31 cry: Psa 18:41; Pro 1:28, Pro 28:9; Isa 1:15; Jer 2:27, Jer 2:28; Eze 8:18; Zac 7:13; Mat 7:22; Luk 13:25; Joh 9:31; Jam 2:13 he will even: Deu 31:17, Deu 31:18, Deu 32:19, Deu 32:20; Isa 59:1-15; Jer 33:5 as: Isa 3:11; Rom 2:8, Rom 2:9 Micah 3:5”