Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
New American Standard Bible
Who
And their flesh from their bones,
King James Version
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Holman Bible
You tear off people’s skin
and strip their flesh from their bones.
International Standard Version
you who despise good and love evil, who tear off the skin of my people, along with the flesh from their bones.
A Conservative Version
Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones,
American Standard Version
ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Amplified
“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear the skin off my people
And their flesh from their bones;
Bible in Basic English
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Julia Smith Translation
Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.
King James 2000
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,
Modern King James verseion
You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones;
NET Bible
yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.
New Heart English Bible
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
The Emphasized Bible
Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong, - tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off 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;
World English Bible
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,
Themes
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Cruelly oppress saints
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Leaders Denounced
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
Cross References
Psalm 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 34:3
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool; ye kill them that are fattened: but ye feed not the flock.
1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah.
1 Kings 22:6-8
And the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and the Lord will give it into the king's hand.
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 Jehovah? Therefore is wrath upon thee from Jehovah.
Psalm 15:4
In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;
Psalm 139:21-22
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
Isaiah 3:15
What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Amos 5:10-14
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that leave nothing for the morning.
Zechariah 11:4-5
Thus saith Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this man should reign over us.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.
John 15:18-19
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
John 15:23-24
He that hates me hates also my Father.
John 18:40
They cried therefore again all, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
Acts 7:51-52
O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.
Romans 1:32
who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.
Romans 12:9
Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:
2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,