Discovery BoxMicah 3:2 
Context3:2 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
Micah 3:9
Context3:9 Listen to this, you leaders of the family 6 of Jacob,
you rulers of the nation 7 of Israel!
You 8 hate justice
and pervert all that is right.
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
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.
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “house.”
8 tn Heb “who.” A new sentence was begun here in the translation for stylistic reasons (also at the beginning of v. 10).
