Micah 3:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You are destroying my people. You take their skin off them and break their bones. You chop their bones up like meat to put in the pot!

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Those who are evil treat my people like bread to be eaten. And they never ask for the Lord’s help. Don’t they know what they are doing?

Ezekiel 11:3

These men say, ‘We will be building our houses again very soon. We are as safe in this city as meat in a pot!’

Zephaniah 3:3

Jerusalem’s leaders are like roaring lions. Her judges are like hungry wolves that come in the evening to attack the sheep—and in the morning nothing is left.

Psalm 27:2

Evil people might attack me. They might try to destroy my body. Yes, my enemies might attack me and try to destroy me, but they will stumble and fall.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord is ready to present his case against the elders and leaders of his people. He says, “You people have burned the vineyard, and what you stole from the poor is still in your houses.

Ezekiel 24:4

Put in the pieces of meat. Put in every good piece, the thighs and the shoulders. Fill the pot with the best bones.

Micah 2:8

But you attack my people like enemies. You steal the clothes off the backs of people walking by. They think they are safe, but you are there to treat them like prisoners of war.

Proverbs 30:14

There are people whose teeth are like swords and their jaws like knives. They take everything they can from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

What gives you the right to hurt my people? What gives you the right to push the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord GOD All-Powerful said this.

Amos 8:4

Listen to me, you who trample on helpless people. You are trying to destroy the poor of this country.