Micah 3:2
ContextNETBible | 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 |
XREF | 1Ki 21:20; 1Ki 22:6-8; 2Ch 19:2; Ps 15:4; Ps 53:4; Ps 139:21,22; Pr 28:4; Isa 3:15; Eze 22:27; Eze 34:3; Am 5:10-14; Am 8:4-6; Zep 3:3; Zec 11:4,5; Lu 19:14; Joh 7:7; Joh 15:18,19,23,24; Joh 18:40; Ac 7:51,52; Ro 1:32; Ro 12:9; 2Ti 3:3 |
NET © Notes |
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. |