◄ Micah 3:3 {2} ►
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Good News Translation
You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.

New Revised Standard Version
who eat the flesh of my people, flay their skin off them, break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.

Contemporary English Version
break their bones, cook it all in a pot, and gulp it down.

New American Bible
Who eat the flesh of my people, flay their skin from them, and break their bones; Who chop them in pieces like flesh in a kettle, like meat in a pot.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

eat.

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

and chop.

Ezekiel 11:3,6,7 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh. . . .

Context
Rulers and Prophets Condemned
…2And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment, 3You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?4Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.…
Cross References
Psalm 14:4
Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 27:2
Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Ezekiel 11:3
Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

Ezekiel 11:6
You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Ezekiel 11:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, all this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 24:4
Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.

Micah 2:8
The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

Micah 3:2
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