Micah 3:3

New English Translation

You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot – like meat in a kettle.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

Psalm 27:2

When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says, “It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

Ezekiel 11:3

They say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’

Ezekiel 24:4

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

Micah 2:8

but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.