Micah 3:2

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Summary

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;

Hate

Love

Pluck

Zechariah 11:4

General references

Ezekiel 24:4

Bible References

Hate

Then said Ahab unto Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he said: I have found thee ! Because thou hast sold thyself to do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,

Then said Jehoshaphat unto the king of Israel, - Seek, I pray thee, at once, the word of Yahweh. So the king of Israel gathered together the prophets, 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, that the Lord may deliver it into the hand of the king.

They hate the man who, in the gate, rebuketh, - and, him who speaketh truthfully, they abhor.

But, his citizens, hated him, and sent off an embassy after him, saying - We desire not, this, man, to be made king over us!

The world cannot hate you; but, me, it hateth, because, I, bear witness concerning it, that, the works thereof, are, wicked.

If, the world, is hating, you, ye are getting to know that, me, before you, it hath hated.

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and in ears, ye, always, against the Holy Spirit, do strive! As your fathers, ye also:

Your love, be without hypocrisy, - loathing that which is wicked, cleaving to that which is good;

without natural affection, accepting no truce, given to intrigue, without self-control, uncivilized, unfriendly to good men,

Love

And there came out to meet him, Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, who said unto King Jehoshaphat, Unto the lawless, was it right to give help? and, on them who hate Yahweh, to bestow thy love? For this cause, therefore, is there wrath against thee, from before Yahweh;

Despised in his sight, is the reprobate, but, them who revere Yahweh, he doth honour, he hath sworn to his neighbour, and will not change;

Do I not hate, them who hate thee, O Yahweh? And loathe, them who rise up against thee?

They who forsake instruction, praise one who is lawless, while, they who keep instruction, are at strife with them.

So they cried aloud again, saying - Not this man, but Barabbas! Now, Barabbas, was, a robber.

Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God, - that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising them .

Pluck

Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.

What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord Yahweh of hosts - And Yahweh saith -

Her rulers within her have been like wolves, rending prey,- In shedding blood In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain.

The milk, ye do eat And with the wool, ye do clothe your- selves, The well-fed, ye do sacrifice, The flock, ye do not tend

Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:

Her rulers in her midst, are roaring lions, - her judges, evening wolves, they have left nothing until morning!

Thus, saith Yahweh my God, - Tend thou the flock doomed to slaughter:

General references

Thou shalt not pervert the vindication of thy needy one in his quarrel.

When there ariseth a controversy between men, and they come nigh unto judgment, and judgment is granted them, then shall they justify the righteous man, and condemn the lawless.

I, will expose thy righteousness, - And thy works - but they will not profit thee!

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city,- And have fled her streets with slain.

Gather the pieces thereof into it, Every good piece thigh and shoulder, With the choice of the bones, fill it: