Micah 3:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
  • Ezek 34:3 : 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
  • Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]. 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
  • Zech 11:4-5 : 4 ¶ Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed [be] the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 ‹But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this› [man] ‹to reign over us.›
  • John 7:7 : 7 ‹The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.›
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 ¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.› 19 ‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.› 24 ‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›
  • John 18:40 : 40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
  • Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
  • Prov 28:4 : 4 ¶ They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found [thee]: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king. 7 And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him? 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.

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    3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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    1¶ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment?

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    21Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

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    10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

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    14Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

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    9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • Ps 38:20
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    20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] good [is].

  • Mic 7:3
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    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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    3Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

    22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

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    8Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

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    20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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    15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

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    5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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    10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

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    3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

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    15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

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    8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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    9¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

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    10¶ The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

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    2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

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    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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    4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

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    3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

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    3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

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    17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD.

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    16The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

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    3Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.

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    15What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

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    12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

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    4Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;

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    5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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    7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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    22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

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    20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

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    29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

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    20¶ They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.