Yehezkiel 22:18-22

22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; ¹  they are the worthless slag of silver. 22:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you ²  have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. ³  22:20 As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there ⁴  and melt you. 22:21 I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it. 22:22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”

Mikha 3:2-3

3:2 yet you ⁵  hate what is good, ⁶ 

and love what is evil. ⁷ 

You flay my people’s skin ⁸ 

and rip the flesh from their bones. ⁹ 

3:3 You ¹⁰  devour my people’s flesh,

strip off their skin,

and crush their bones.

You chop them up like flesh in a pot ¹¹  –

like meat in a kettle.

Matius 7:2

7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ¹² 

[22:18]  ¹ tn For similar imagery, see Isa 1:21-26; Jer 6:27-30.

[22:19]  ² tn The Hebrew second person pronoun is masculine plural here and in vv. 19b-21, indicating that the people are being addressed.

[22:19]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[22:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will put.” No object is supplied in the Hebrew, prompting many to emend the text to “I will blow.” See BHS and verse 21.

[3:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “the ones who.”

[3:2]  ⁶ tn Or “good.”

[3:2]  ⁷ tn Or “evil.”

[3:2]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”

[3:2]  sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism, because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed.

[3:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who.”

[3:3]  ¹¹ 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”).

[7:2]  ¹² tn Grk “by [the measure] with which you measure it will be measured to you.”