Micah 3:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Who eat the flesh of my people, flay their skin from them, and break their bones; Who chop them in pieces like flesh in a kettle, like meat in a pot.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Will these evildoers never learn? They devour my people as they devour bread; they do not call upon the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:3

They are saying, “No need to build houses! The city is the pot, and we are the meat.”

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers come at me to devour my flesh, These my enemies and foes themselves stumble and fall.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the people’s elders and princes: You, you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.

Ezekiel 24:4

Add to it pieces of meat, all choice pieces; With thigh and shoulder, with choice cuts fill it.

Micah 2:8

But you rise up against my people as an enemy: you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful, From those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war.

Proverbs 30:14

There are some—their teeth are swords, their teeth are knives, Devouring the needy from the earth, and the poor from the human race.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the God of hosts.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land: