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.
6. Micah 3:3 tn Heb “who.”
7. Micah 3:3 tc The MT reads “and they chop up as in a pot.” The translation assumes an emendation of כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka’asher, “as”) to כִּשְׁאֵר (kishʾer, “like flesh”).
8. Micah 3:4 tn Heb “they,” referring to the indicted leaders in vv. 1-3.