Micah 3:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

break their bones, cook it all in a pot, and gulp it down.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Won't you evil people learn? You refuse to pray, and you gobble up the Lord's people.

Ezekiel 11:3

They say things like, ‘Let's build more houses. This city is like a cooking pot over a fire, and we are the meat, but at least the pot keeps us from being burned in the fire.’

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are roaring lions, its judges are wolves; in the evening they attack, by morning nothing is left.

Psalm 27:2

Brutal people may attack and try to kill me, but they will stumble. Fierce enemies may attack, but they will fall.

Isaiah 3:14

He will even judge you rulers and leaders of his own nation. You destroyed his vineyard and filled your houses by robbing the poor.

Ezekiel 24:4

Throw in the legs and shoulders of your finest sheep and put in the juicy bones.

Micah 2:8

My people, you have turned against one another! You have even stolen clothes right off the backs of innocent neighbors who pass by in peace.

Proverbs 30:14

others are so greedy that they gobble up the poor and homeless.

Isaiah 3:15

The Lord All-Powerful says, “You have crushed my people and rubbed in the dirt the faces of the poor.”

Amos 8:4

You people crush those in need and wipe out the poor.