Micah 2:8

Good News Translation

The Lord replies, “You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

Ours is a great city, one of the most peaceful and loyal in Israel. Why are you trying to destroy it? Do you want to ruin what belongs to the Lord?”

Psalm 55:20

My former companion attacked his friends; he broke his promises.

Isaiah 9:21

The people of Manasseh and the people of Ephraim attack each other, and together they attack Judah. Yet even so the Lord's anger is not ended; his hand is still stretched out to punish.

Jeremiah 12:8

My chosen people have turned against me; like a lion in the forest they have roared at me, and so I hate them.

Micah 3:2

yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

Micah 3:3

You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

Micah 7:3

They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.