"The best of them is like a briar, the most upright like a thorn hedge.  The day when you post your watchmen, your punishment will come.  then their confusion will occur.  Do not trust in a neighbor; do not have confidence in a friend.  From her who lies in your bosom guard your lips.  For son treats father contemptuously, daughter rises up against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own household."

Remember Micah has just told us that enemies have arisen in the land of Israel - and that those enemies have replaced the leaders in the land.  Now we get a look at the practical side of that statement.

Look who betrays each other.  Mother verses daughter.  Son verses father.  Micah said that the best of people are like briars, or thorns.  He even tells the husband that he cannot trust the wife.

Micah's bottom line:  When leadership declines in the land, the enemy resides in the home.

Have you ever felt that way?  As if evil is prevailing in your household?

He who is like Jehovah guards his family.