Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment? ² Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who also 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 of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not 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 assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord will 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, Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

Psalm 15:4

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

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 wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 3:15

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

Amos 5:10-14

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Zechariah 11:4-5

Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

Luke 19:14

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

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil.

John 15:18-19

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

John 15:23-24

He that hateth me, hateth 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 stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Romans 1:32

Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,