Micah Chapter 3 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Micah 3:2

ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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BBE Micah 3:2

You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
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DARBY Micah 3:2

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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KJV Micah 3:2

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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WBT Micah 3:2


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WEB Micah 3:2

You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones;
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YLT Micah 3:2

Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - The good...the evil; i.e. goodness and wickedness. Septuagint, τὰ καλά τὰ πονηρά (Amos 5:14, etc.; John 3:20; Romans 1:32). Who pluck off their skin from off them. They are not shepherds, but butchers. We have the same figurative expression for merciless extortion and pillage. Ezekiel makes a similar complaint (Ezekiel 34:2-4). Cheyne sees in this and the following verse a possible allusion to cannibalism as at least known to the Israelites by hearsay or tradition. There is a passage in Wisdom (12:5) which somewhat countenances the idea that the Canaanites were guilty of this enormity, but it is probably only a rhetorical exaggeration of the writer. In the present passage the terms seem to be simply metaphors taken from the preparation of meat for human food. Such an allusion is natural in the mouth of one who had just been speaking of Israel as a flock (Micah 2:12).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2, 3) Who hate the good.--The judges, instead of fulfilling the obligations of their office, whereby they should be "for the people to God-ward," perpetrated the most flagrant cruelty upon them. Micah compares it to the process of preparing food, in which every part of the animal, even to the bones, is utilised. So the judges robbed the people until there was nothing left to them.