Micah 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 

biblegateway Mic 3:2

you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;

biblegateway Mic 3:2

"You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,

biblegateway Mic 3:2

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

biblegateway Mic 3:2

Haters of good, lovers of evil: Isn't justice in your job description? But you skin my people alive. You rip the meat off their bones.

SABDAweb Mic 3:2

You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

bibleoremus Mic 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin off my people, and the flesh off their bones;

biblegateway Mic 3:2

You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;

biblegateway Mic 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 

¹ tn Heb “the ones who.”

² tn Or “good.”

³ tn Or “evil.”

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.

⁵ tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”

⁵ sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism, because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed.