Micah 3:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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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  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
  • Ezek 34:3 : 3 The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.
  • Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate. 11 Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine. 12 For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside. 13 Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, And it is so; Jehovah, God of Hosts, `is' with you, as ye said.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, 5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. 6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
  • Zech 11:4-5 : 4 Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter, 5 Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
  • John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
  • John 18:40 : 40 therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye; 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
  • Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? 22 `With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
  • Prov 28:4 : 4 Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;
  • 1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, `Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, `Go up, and the Lord doth give `it' into the hand of the king.' 7 And Jehoshaphat saith, `Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, and we seek by him?' 8 And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, `To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee `is' wrath from before Jehovah,
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Despised in his eyes `is' a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;

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    21Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.

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    10They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

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    8The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

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    14Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

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    9Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

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    20And those paying evil for good accuse me, Because of my pursuing good.

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    3Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?

    22`With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.

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    8And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war.

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    20Wo `to' those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

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    15Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

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    5And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

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    10Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.

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    3Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

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    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

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    8Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered -- it hath been as wood.

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    16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

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    9The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

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    10Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.

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    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

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    2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

    3Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it `is'.

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    3Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

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    3Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

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    17And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these `are' things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

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    16(The face of Jehovah `is' on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)

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    3The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.

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    15What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

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    5Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

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    12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

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    4Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things -- their vessels.

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    5Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

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    7All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

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    22Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

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    20And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.

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    29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

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    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

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    20An abomination to Jehovah `are' the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way `are' His delight.