Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ Then said I, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel, - Is it not yours to know justice? ² Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong, - tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces, - and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot.

My People

What is Good

Psalm 53:4

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

Ezekiel 22:27

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

Ezekiel 34:3

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

1 Kings 21:20

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,

1 Kings 22:6-8

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.

2 Chronicles 19:2

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;

Psalm 15:4

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;

Psalm 139:21-22

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

Proverbs 28:4

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

Isaiah 3:15

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 -

Amos 5:10-14

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

Amos 8:4-6

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

Zephaniah 3:3

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

Zechariah 11:4-5

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

Luke 19:14

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

John 7:7

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

John 15:18-19

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

John 15:23-24

He that hateth me, hateth, my Father also.

John 18:40

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

Acts 7:51-52

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

Romans 1:32

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 .

Romans 12:9

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

2 Timothy 3:3

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