Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice? ² [Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones, ³ and who eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin from them, and break their bones, and chop [them] like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot."

My People

What is Good

Psalm 53:4

Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials [are] like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

The fat you eat, and you clothe [yourself] [with] the wool; the well-nourished [animals] you slaughter, [but] you do not feed the flock.

1 Kings 21:20

Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

1 Kings 22:6-8

Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?" Then they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you [be] a help to the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh? On account of this, wrath [has come] against you from Yahweh.

Psalm 15:4

In his eyes a rejected one [is] contemptible, but he honors those who respect Yahweh. He takes an oath to [his own] injury and does not retract it.

Psalm 139:21-22

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Yahweh? And do I [not] loathe those who rise up against you?

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.

Isaiah 3:15

{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

Amos 5:10-14

They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials in her midst [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning.

Zechariah 11:4-5

Thus says Yahweh my God: "Shepherd the flock [doomed] to slaughter.

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!'

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

John 15:18-19

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

John 15:23-24

The one who hates me hates my Father also.

John 18:40

Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

Acts 7:51-52

"[You] stiff-necked [people] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!

Romans 1:32

who, [although they] know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same [things], but also they approve of those who do [them].

Romans 12:9

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

2 Timothy 3:3

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,