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 off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,

You hate good and love evil. You tear off the skin of people and strip their flesh from their bones.

You hate good and love evil. You strip the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones.

biblegateway Mic 3:2

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

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

and yet you hate good and love evil; you flay the skin of my people and tear the flesh from 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;

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off 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.