Micah 3:2

Israel's Leaders Denounced

¹ And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment? ² Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones, ³ And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread them out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.

My People

What is Good

Psalm 53:4

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

Ezekiel 22:27

Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab saith unto Elijah, 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, 'I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

1 Kings 22:6-8

and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, 'Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, 'Go up, and the Lord doth give it into the hand of the king.'

2 Chronicles 19:2

and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, 'To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee is wrath from before Jehovah,

Psalm 15:4

Despised in his eyes is a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;

Psalm 139:21-22

Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?

Proverbs 28:4

Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

Isaiah 3:15

What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

Amos 5:10-14

They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

Zechariah 11:4-5

Thus said Jehovah my God: 'Feed the flock of the slaughter,

Luke 19:14

and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.

John 7:7

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

John 15:18-19

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

John 15:23-24

'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

John 18:40

therefore they all cried out again, saying, 'Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.

Acts 7:51-52

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

Romans 1:32

who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

Romans 12:9

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,