1 Against the tyranny of princes and false prophets.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: should not ye know [a]judgment?

But they hate the good, and love the evil: [b]they pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones.

And they eat also the flesh of my people, and flay off their skin from 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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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:1 That thing which is just and lawful, both to govern my people aright, and also to discharge your own conscience.
  2. Micah 3:2 The Prophet condemneth the wicked governors not only of covetousness, theft, and murder, but compareth them to wolves, lions, and most cruel beasts.

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

Then I said,

“Listen, you leaders(A) of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
    you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;(B)
who eat my people’s flesh,(C)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;(D)
who chop(E) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?(F)

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