Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. Did it not pertain to you to know that which is right? ² “You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear off their skin from them
And their flesh from their bones,
³ and eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they 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; they have not called upon God.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to follow their own greed.

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye eat the milk, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill those that are fat; but ye do not feed the flock.

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

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 Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for the Lord shall 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, Should thou help the ungodly and love those that hate the LORD? Therefore, the wrath of the presence of the LORD shall be upon thee.

Psalm 15:4

In whose eyes the vile person is not esteemed; but he honours those that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt and does not change.

Psalm 139:21-22

Do I not hate all those, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Proverbs 28:4

Those that forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

Amos 5:10-14

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off the poor of the land,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not leave a bone for tomorrow.

Zechariah 11:4-5

Thus hath the LORD my God said, Feed the flock of the slaughter,

Luke 19:14

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

John 7:7

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

John 15:18-19

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

John 15:23-24

He that hates me hates my Father also.

John 18:40

Then they all cried 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 having understood the righteousness of God, they did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only those that do the same, but even those who encourage those that do them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,