Micah 3:3

New Century Version

You eat my people’s flesh and skin them and break their bones; you chop them up like meat for the pot, like meat in a cooking pan.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Don’t the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask the Lord for help.

Psalm 27:2

Evil people may try to destroy my body. My enemies and those who hate me attack me, but they are overwhelmed and defeated.

Proverbs 30:14

Some people have teeth like swords; their jaws seem full of knives. They want to remove the poor from the earth and the needy from the land.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord presents his case against the elders and other leaders of his people: “You have burned the vineyard. Your houses are full of what you took from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

What gives you the right to crush my people and grind the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord God All-Powerful says this.

Ezekiel 11:3

They say, ‘It is almost time for us to build houses. This city is like a cooking pot, and we are like the best meat.’

Ezekiel 24:4

Put in the pieces of meat, the best pieces—the legs and the shoulders. Fill it with the best bones.

Amos 8:4

Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people, you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,

Micah 2:8

But you are fighting against my people like an enemy. You take the coats from people who pass by; you rob them of their safety; you plan war.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officers are like roaring lions. Its rulers are like hungry wolves that attack in the evening, and in the morning nothing is left of those they attacked.