Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? ² ye 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 break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

My People

What is Good

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.

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 do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.

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 will deliver it into the hand of the king.

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 wicked, and love them that hate Jehovah? for this thing wrath is upon thee from before Jehovah.

Psalm 15:4

In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;

Psalm 139:21-22

Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those 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 face of the poor? 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, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

Zechariah 11:4-5

Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

John 15:18-19

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

John 15:23-24

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

John 18:40

They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.)

Acts 7:51-52

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,