Micah 3:3

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, who eat my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?

Psalm 27:2

When the wicked came against me to devour my flesh — my enemies and my foes— they stumbled and fell.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and the princes of His people: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat My people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of Hosts.

Ezekiel 11:3

who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the flesh.’

Ezekiel 24:4

Gather the pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones;

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Micah 2:8

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.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.