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Micah 3:2

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3:2 yet you 1  hate what is good, 2 

and love what is evil. 3 

You flay my people’s skin 4 

and rip the flesh from their bones. 5 

1 tn Heb “the ones who.”

2 tn Or “good.”

3 tn Or “evil.”

4 tn Heb “their skin from upon them.” The referent of the pronoun (“my people,” referring to Jacob and/or the house of Israel, with the Lord as the speaker) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”

sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism, because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed.



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