Micah 3:3

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

“Don't they know?” asks the Lord. “Are all these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me.”

Psalm 27:2

When evil people attack me and try to kill me, they stumble and fall.

Proverbs 30:14

There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord is bringing the elders and leaders of his people to judgment. He makes this accusation: “You have plundered vineyards, and your houses are full of what you have taken from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

You have no right to crush my people and take advantage of the poor. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 11:3

They say, ‘We will soon be building houses again. The city is like a cooking pot, and we are like the meat in it, but at least it protects us from the fire.’

Ezekiel 24:4

Put in the best pieces of meat— the shoulders and the legs— fill it with choice bony pieces too.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.

Micah 2:8

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.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning.