Micah 3:2
but you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You act like butchers: it is as though you strip the skin off my people and tear the flesh from their bones.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
3It is as though you chop them into pieces like [SIM] meat to be cooked in a pot.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:6So Ahab summoned about 400 of his prophets together, and he asked them, “Should my army go to fight the people in Ramoth and retake that city, or not?” They answered, “Yes, go and attack them, because God will enable your army to defeat them.”
Psalms 15:4Godly people hate those whom God has rejected, but they respect those who revere Yahweh. They do what they have promised to do even if it causes them trouble to do that.
Psalms 139:21Yahweh, I certainly [RHQ] hate those who hate you! And I despise [RHQ] those who rebel against you.
Isaiah 3:15You should stop [RHQ] crushing my people! It is as though you are pushing the faces of poor people into the dirt!” That is what the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Ezekiel 22:27Their officials are like [SIM] wolves that tear apart the animals that they have killed: They murder people [DOU] in order to get their money.
Amos 4:1You wealthy women of Samaria have grown fat like [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan region. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us more wine to drink!”
Matthew Henry on Micah 3:2-8
The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. ( b. c. 726.) 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto the Lord , but he… Read the whole commentary →