Micah 3:3
New Living Translation
3 Yes, you eat my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like meat for the cooking pot.
Psalm 14:4
New Living Translation
4 Will those who do evil never learn?
They eat up my people like bread
and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
Ezekiel 11:6-7
New Living Translation
6 You have murdered many in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
7 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: This city is an iron pot all right, but the pieces of meat are the victims of your injustice. As for you, I will soon drag you from this pot.
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Ezekiel 11:3
New Living Translation
3 They say to the people, ‘Is it not a good time to build houses? This city is like an iron pot. We are safe inside it like meat in a pot.[a]’
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- 11:3 Hebrew This city is the pot, and we are the meat.
Zephaniah 3:3
New Living Translation
3 Its leaders are like roaring lions
hunting for their victims.
Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time,
who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.
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