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Micah 3:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.

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‘Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.


Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.


Let love be without hypocrisy.  Detest evil;  cling to what is good.


Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord  God of Armies.


Then Jehu  son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him  and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord?  Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.


Ahab said to Elijah, ‘So, my enemy, you’ve found me, have you? ’ He replied, ‘I have found you because you devoted  yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.


unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers,  without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,


Although they know God’s just sentence #– #that those who practise such things deserve to die  ,  #– #they not only do them, but even applaud  , others who practise them.


They shouted back, ‘Not this man, but Barabbas! ’  Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.  ,


The world cannot hate   you, but it does hate me because I testify about it #– #that its works are evil.


‘But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, “We don’t want this man to rule over us.”


The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.


You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.


I will announce your righteousness, and your works #– #they will not profit you.


‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: The slain you have put within it are the meat,  and the city is the pot, but I  will take you out of it.


Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece – thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones.


But recently my people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war.


Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.


Both hands are good  at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.


Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.


Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’


Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.





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