Micah 3:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ who also eat the flesh of my people; and they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, they chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Yes, you who eat the flesh of my people and strip their skin from off them, who break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot, like meat in a big kettle.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Common English Bible

³ who devour the flesh of my people, tear off their skin, break their bones in pieces, and spread them out as if in a pot, like meat in a kettle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ They have devoured the flesh of my people, and have stripped their skin from over them, and they have shattered and chopped their bones, as if for the kettle, and like flesh in the middle of the pot.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin from off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

Micah 3:3 Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon the LORD.

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Isaiah 3:14

The LORD will enter into judgement with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:

Isaiah 3:15

what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Ezekiel 11:3

which say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

Ezekiel 24:4

gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Micah 2:8

But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.