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yet you[a] hate what is good[b]
and love what is evil.[c]
You flay my people’s skin[d]
and rip the flesh from their bones.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:2 tn Heb “the ones who.”
  2. Micah 3:2 tn Or “good.”
  3. Micah 3:2 tn Or “evil.”
  4. Micah 3:2 tn Heb “their skin from upon them.” The referent of the pronoun (“my people,” referring to Jacob and/or the house of Israel, with the Lord as the speaker) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  5. Micah 3:2 tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism, because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed.