English Standard Version
Micah 3:2
2you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
Micah 3:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
- New International Version (NIV)you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
- New King James Version (NKJV)You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;
- New Living Translation (NLT)but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones.
Context of Micah 3:2
1And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?— you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones, 3who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron. 4Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
Read all of Micah 3Micah 3:2 word by word
שֹׂ֥נְאֵי ט֖וֹב וְאֹ֣הֲבֵי רָ֑ע גֹּזְלֵ֤י עוֹרָם֙ מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וּשְׁאֵרָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל עַצְמוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Who hateשָׂנֵאώânê' · to hateH8130
- the goodטוֹבţôb · goodH2896
- and loveאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
- the evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
- who pluck offגָּזַלgâzal · to plunderH1497
- their skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
- from off them, and their fleshשְׁאֵרshe'êr · fleshH7607
- from off their bonesעֶ֫צֶם‛etsem · boneH6106
Cross-references for Micah 3:2
- 1 Kings 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
- 1 Kings 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."
- Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
- Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'
- John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
- John 15:18"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- Acts 7:51"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
- Romans 12:9Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
- 2 Timothy 3:3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
- 2 Chronicles 19:2But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.
- Psalms 15:4in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
- Psalms 139:21Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
- Proverbs 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
- John 18:40They cried out again, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
- Romans 1:32Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
- Psalms 53:4Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
Commentaries on Micah 3:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Who hate the good and love the evil - that is, they hate, for its own sake, that which is good, and love that which is evil. The prophet is not here speaking of their “hating good” men, or “loving evil” men, but of their hating goodness and loving wickedness.: “It is sin not to love good; what guilt to hate it! it is faulty, not to flee from evil, what ungodliness to love it!” Man, at first, loves and admires the good, even while he cloth it not; he hates…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3The leaders acted like wild animals. They harmed their own people and treated them without mercy.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. pluck off their skin ... flesh--rob their fellow countrymen of all their substance (Psa 14:4; Pr 30:14).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Micah 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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