Micah 3:2-3

3:2 yet you ¹  hate what is good, ² 

and love what is evil. ³ 

You flay my people’s skin ⁴ 

and rip the flesh from their bones. ⁵ 

3:3 You ⁶  devour my people’s flesh,

strip off their skin,

and crush their bones.

You chop them up like flesh in a pot ⁷  –

like meat in a kettle.

Micah 3:10

3:10 You ⁸  build Zion through bloody crimes, ⁹ 

Jerusalem ¹⁰  through unjust violence.

[3:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the ones who.”

[3:2]  ² tn Or “good.”

[3:2]  ³ tn Or “evil.”

[3:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “their skin from upon them.” The referent of the pronoun (“my people,” referring to Jacob and/or the house of Israel, with the Lord as the speaker) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”

[3:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “who.”

[3:3]  ⁷ tc The MT reads “and they chop up as in a pot.” The translation assumes an emendation of כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka’asher, “as”) to כִּשְׁאֵר (kish’er, “like flesh”).

[3:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “who.”

[3:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “bloodshed” (so NAB, NASB, NIV); NLT “murder.”

[3:10]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.