Micah 2:8

Modern English Version

But lately My people rise up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly, like men returning from war.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

I am a trustworthy and faithful one of Israel. You are attempting to destroy a city, even a mother, in Israel. Why do you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?”

Psalm 55:20

He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has violated his covenant.

Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh consumes Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh, and they together shall be against Judah. For all this His anger is not turned away, and His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 12:8

My inheritance is to Me as a lion in the forest. She cries out against Me; therefore I have hated her.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Micah 3:3

you who have eaten the flesh of My people, and have flayed their skin from them, and broken their bones in pieces; who have chopped them up like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the cauldron.

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and no one is upright among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; each hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.