Micah 3:2
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:2 in other translations
| BSB | You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. |
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| WEB | You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; |
| ASV | ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
| YLT | Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones, |
| DARBY | Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
| BBE | You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones; |
| Webster | Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
What does Micah 3:2 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Micah 3:1-8
Men cannot expect to do ill, and fare well; but to find that done to them which they did to others. How seldom do wholesome truths reach the ears of those in high stations or in authority! Those who deceive others are preparing confusion for their own faces. The prophet had ardent love to God and to the souls of men; deep concern for his glory and their salvation, and zeal against sin. The difficulties he met with…
Micah 3:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Micah 3:2
- Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
- Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
- 1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.
- 1 Kings 22:6-8
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth–gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him? And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
- Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
- 2 Timothy 3:3
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
- Romans 1:32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
- Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Psalms 15:4
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
- Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 21:20; 22:6-8; Am 5:10-14; Lu 19:14; Joh 7:7; 15:18,19,23,24
Ac 7:51,52; Ro 12:9; 2Ti 3:3
love.
2Ch 19:2; Ps 15:4; 139:21,22; Pr 28:4; Joh 18:40; Ro 1:32
pluck.
Ps 53:4; Isa 3:15; Eze 22:27; 34:3; Am 8:4-6; Zep 3:3; Zec 11:4,5
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Context
- Micah 3:1
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?
- Micah 3:2
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Micah 3:3
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.
Micah 3:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que aborrecen lo bueno y aman lo malo, que les quitan su piel y su carne de sobre los huesos; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous qui haïssez le bien et qui aimez le mal, qui arrachez leur peau de dessus eux, et leur chair de dessus leurs os, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die ihr das Gute hasset und das Böse liebet; die ihr ihnen die Haut abziehet und das Fleisch von ihren Gebeinen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui odio habetis bonum, et diligitis malum; qui violenter tollitis pelles eorum desuper eis, et carnem eorum desuper ossibus eorum; |