Micah 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
  • Ezek 34:3 : 3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
  • Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them. 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine. 12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place. 13 So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time. 14 Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; 6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
  • Zech 11:4-5 : 4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death; 5 Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
  • John 7:7 : 7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you. 19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
  • John 18:40 : 40 Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
  • Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me? 22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
  • Prov 28:4 : 4 Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king. 7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions? 8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.

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    1 And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

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    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10 They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

  • Ps 38:20
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    20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

  • Mic 7:3
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  • Ps 52:3
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    3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

    22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

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    8 As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.

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    20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

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    15 Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

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    5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

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    10 You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • Lam 4:8
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    8 Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

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    10 Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

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    3 For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

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    3 And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.

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    4 Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

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    3 They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

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    3 You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

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    17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

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    16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

  • Ezek 34:3
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    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

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    15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Ezek 35:5
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    5 Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

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    12 The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

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    4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.

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    5 The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

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    7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

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    2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

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    22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

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    20 On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

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    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

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    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

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    7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

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    20 The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight