Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ "He will say, "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you officials of the house of Israel! You should know justice, should you not? ² you who despise good and love evil, who tear off the skin of my people, along with the flesh from their bones. ³ You eat the flesh of my people, flaying their skin from them. You break their bones, chopping them in pieces like meat for a pot, like meat destined for a soup kettle.'

My People

What is Good

Psalm 53:4

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on God.

Ezekiel 22:27

""I'm constantly being profaned among them. Her princes within her are like wolves tearing their prey apart. They shed blood, destroying souls, and make unjust gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

"Woe to you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves and not the sheep. Shouldn't shepherds feed the sheep? You're eating the best parts, clothing yourselves with the wool, and slaughtering the home-grown sheep without having fed the sheep!

1 Kings 21:20

Later on, Ahab asked Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?"

1 Kings 22:6-8

So the king of Israel called in about 400 prophets and asked them, "Should we go attack Ramoth-gilead, or should I call off the attack?" "Go attack them," they all said, "because the Lord will drop them right into the king's hand!"

2 Chronicles 19:2

where Hanani's son Jehu, the seer, went out to meet him. He asked King Jehoshaphat, "Should you be helping those who are wicked, yes or no? Should you love those who hate the LORD? Wrath is headed your way directly from the LORD because of this.

Psalm 15:4

The one who despises those who are utterly wicked, but who honors the one who fears the LORD, who keeps his word even when it hurts and does not change,

Psalm 139:21-22

I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ?

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked, but whoever keeps it fights them.

Isaiah 3:15

How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

Amos 5:10-14

They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

Amos 8:4-6

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

Zephaniah 3:3

Its national officials are roaring lions; its judges are like wolves of the night that don't leave the bones for the morning.

Zechariah 11:4-5

This is what the LORD my God says: "Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.

Luke 19:14

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

John 15:18-19

"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

John 15:23-24

The person who hates me also hates my Father.

John 18:40

At this, they shouted out again, "Not this fellow, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Acts 7:51-52

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Romans 1:32

Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Your love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,