# Look "Listen carefully" or "Pay attention". Micah begins to quote a long speech by Yahweh. # disaster See how you translated this in Micah 1:12. # this clan This refers to the entire community of Israel, whose rich people are oppressing the poor. The sins of the leaders are coming back on the whole nation. # from which you will not remove your necks "from which you will not be able to escape". Yahweh speaks of punishing the people as if he were putting a yoke around their necks.