Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in YHWH’s sight.
Micah 3:2 - Y'all Version Bible You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You who hate the good and love the evil, who pluck and steal the skin from off [My people] and their flesh from off their bones; American Standard Version (1901) ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Common English Bible you who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin off them, and the flesh off their bones, Catholic Public Domain Version you who hold hatred for good, and love evil, who violently steal their skins from over them and their flesh from over their bones? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones? |
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in YHWH’s sight.
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate YHWH? Because of this, wrath is on you from before YHWH.
whose eyes despise the vile person, but who honors those who fear YHWH; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change;
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
Why do y’all crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, YHWH Almighty.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
“‘Therefore Lord YHWH says: “The corpses that y’all have laid in the middle are the meat, and this city is the cauldron. But y’all will be brought out of the middle of it.
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.
Y’all eat the fat. Y’all clothe yourself* with the wool. Y’all kill the fatlings, but y’all don’t feed the sheep.
Y’all must listen to this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Y’all are to hate evil and love good, and y’all must establish justice in the courts. It may be that YHWH, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. Y’all strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
But his subjects hated him, and sent an envoy after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be king over us.’
Then they all shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
The world can’t hate y’all, but it hates me, because I testify that its works are evil.
And although they fully know the decrees of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, they not only do those things, but also approve of those who practice them.
Love must be sincere, hating what is evil and clinging to what is good.
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, savage, not goodness-lovers,