Micah 3:3 {2}
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You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

eat.

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

and chop.

Ezekiel 11:3,6,7 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh. . . .

Context
Rulers and Prophets Condemned
2And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment, 3You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?4Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.…
Cross References
Psalm 14:4
Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 27:2
Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Ezekiel 11:3
Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

Ezekiel 11:6
You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Ezekiel 11:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, all this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 24:4
Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.

Micah 2:8
The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

Lexicon
You eat
אָכְלוּ֮ (’ā·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

the flesh
שְׁאֵ֣ר (šə·’êr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7607: Flesh, as living, for, food, food of any kind, kindred by blood

of my people
עַמִּי֒ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

after stripping off
הִפְשִׁ֔יטוּ (hip̄·šî·ṭū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6584: To strip off, make a dash, raid

their skin
וְעוֹרָם֙ (wə·‘ō·w·rām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5785: Skin, hide, leather

and breaking
פִּצֵּ֑חוּ (piṣ·ṣê·ḥū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6476: To cause to break or burst forth, break forth with

their bones.
עַצְמֹֽתֵיהֶ֖ם (‘aṣ·mō·ṯê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

You chop them up
וּפָרְשׂוּ֙ (ū·p̄ā·rə·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6566: To break apart, disperse

like [meat]
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

for the cooking pot,
בַּסִּ֔יר (bas·sîr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5518: A pot, a thorn, a hook

like meat
וּכְבָשָׂ֖ר (ū·ḵə·ḇā·śār)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

in
בְּת֥וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8432: A bisection, the centre

a kettle.”
קַלָּֽחַת׃ (qal·lā·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7037: A caldron


Additional Translations
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot, like meat in a kettle.”Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.

who also eat the flesh of my people; and they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, they chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread them out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.
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