Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ Hear, O ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye leaders of the house of Israel: Should not ye know, what were lawful and right? ² But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones; ³ ye eat the flesh of my people, and flay of their skin; ye break their bones, ye chop them in pieces as it were into a cauldron, and as flesh into a pot.

My People

What is Good

Psalm 53:4

How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?

Ezekiel 22:27

Thy rulers in thee are like ravishing wolves, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, for their own covetous lucre.

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye have eaten up the fat, ye have clothed you with the wool: the best fed have ye slain, but the flock have ye not nourished.

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, "Hast thou found me thine enemy at any time?" And he said, "Yea, because thou art utterly given to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD.

1 Kings 22:6-8

And then the king of Israel gathered of the Prophets together, upon a four hundred men, and said unto them, "Shall I go to Ramoth in Gilead to battle, or be still?" And they said, "Go: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hands of the king."

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went out against him and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Oughtest thou to help the wicked, and to love them that hate the LORD? In this verily is the wrath of the LORD upon thee.

Psalm 15:4

He that sitteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes, and maketh much of them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disappointeth him not, though it were to his own hindrance.

Psalm 139:21-22

Do not I hate them, O LORD, 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 ungodly; but such as keep the law, abhor them.

Isaiah 3:15

Wherefore do ye oppress my people, and mar the faces of the innocents?" Thus shall the LORD God of Hosts revile them.

Amos 5:10-14

But they owe him evil will, that reproveth them openly: and whoso telleth them the plain truth, they abhor him.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.

Zechariah 11:4-5

Thus sayeth the LORD my God, "Feed the sheep of the slaughter,

Luke 19:14

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

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you. Me it hateth: Because I testify of it, that the works of it are evil.

John 15:18-19

"If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you.

John 15:23-24

He that hateth me, hateth my father.

John 18:40

Then cried they all again saying, "Not him, but Barabbas." That Barabbas was a robber.

Acts 7:51-52

"Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Romans 1:32

Which men, though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which such things commit are worthy of death: yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave unto that which is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

unkind, trucebreakers, stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce, despisers of them which are good,