Micah 3:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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 burnt 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. Pile wood underneath the pot, and let the meat and bones boil until they are done.”

Micah 2:8

My people, you have even stolen clothes right off the backs of your unsuspecting soldiers returning home from battle.

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 dust the faces of the poor.”

Amos 8:4

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