Micah 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in its midst 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 You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock.
  • Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many 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 you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • Zech 11:4-5 : 4 Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter. 5 Whose owners slay them and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' And their own shepherds do not pity them.
  • 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 it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
  • John 18:40 : 40 Then they all cried again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good.
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those who are good,
  • Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
  • Prov 28:4 : 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself 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 to them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I refrain? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the king’s hand. 7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him? 8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he does 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, Should you help the wicked and love those that hate the LORD? Therefore, wrath is upon you from before the LORD.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt, and does not change.

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  • Mic 3:3-4
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    3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.

    4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds.

  • 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice?

  • 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • 10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

  • 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • 14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

  • 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • 20 Those also who render evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

  • 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
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    21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

  • 8 Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men averse from war.

  • 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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

  • 5 They have repaid me evil for good and hatred for my love.

  • 10 You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

  • 3 Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • 15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • 8 Their appearance is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin clings to their bones; it has withered, it has become like a stick.

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

  • 9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright; but the just seek his life.

  • 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • 4 My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • Mic 2:1-3
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

    2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

    3 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.

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

  • 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God.

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

  • 3 You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

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

  • 16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

  • 3 You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock.

  • 15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

  • 5 Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

  • 12 The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • 4 Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

  • 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.

  • 7 All who hate me whisper together against me; they devise my harm against me.

  • 2 Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • 22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.

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

  • 9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

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

  • 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • 20 Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the upright in their way are His delight.