Micha 3:3

Staten Vertaling

Ja, zij zijn het, die het vlees mijns volks eten, en hun huid afstropen, en hun beenderen verbreken; en vaneen leggen, gelijk als in een pot, en als vlees in het midden eens ketels.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en eet het vlees mijns volks; en als gij hun de huid afgestroopt hebt, breekt gij hun ook de beenderen en gij snijdt het vaneen als in een pot en als vlees in een ketel.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
zij eten het vlees van mijn volk op, stropen hun het vel af, slaan hun de beenderen stuk; zij halen het uit elkaar, als vlees in den pot, als stukken in den ketel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eat: Psalms 14:4

and chop: Ezekiel 11:3, Ezekiel 11:6, Ezekiel 11:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:14 - was with rigour Job 19:22 - and are not Job 31:31 - Oh Psalms 57:3 - from the reproach of him Psalms 94:5 - break Proverbs 1:12 - swallow Proverbs 21:10 - findeth no favour Isaiah 1:21 - it was full Isaiah 3:15 - ye beat Jeremiah 6:13 - For Ezekiel 7:11 - Violence Ezekiel 22:27 - princes Ezekiel 22:29 - people Ezekiel 24:4 - General Amos 2:6 - because John 19:31 - their Acts 23:10 - fearing James 5:3 - and shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins from off them,.... Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty. So the Targum,

"who spoil the substance of my people, and their precious mammon they take from them;''

and what aggravated their guilt was, that they were the Lord's people by profession and religion they so used; whom he had committed to their care to rule over, protect, and defend:

and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron: did with them as cooks do, who not only cut flesh off the bones, and into slices, but break the bones themselves, to get out the marrow, and chop them small, that they may have all the virtue that is in them, to make their soup and broth the richer; by which is signified, that these wicked and avaricious rulers took every method to squeeze the people, and get all their wealth and riches into their hands, that they might have in a more riotous and luxurious manner.