Míjiāshū 3:3

3 Chī wǒ mín de ròu , bāo tāmende pí , dá zhé tāmende gútou , fèn chéng kuaì zǐ xiàng yào xià guō , yòu xiàng fǔ zhōng de ròu .

Míjiāshū 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 3:3

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.

Míjiāshū 3:3 In-Context

1 Wǒ shuō , Yǎgè de shǒulǐng , Yǐsèliè jiā de guān zhǎng a , nǐmen yào tīng . nǐmen bùdàng zhīdào gōngping ma .

2 Nǐmen è shàn hǎo è . cóng rénshēn shang bāo pí , cóng rén gútou shang tī ròu .

3 Chī wǒ mín de ròu , bāo tāmende pí , dá zhé tāmende gútou , fèn chéng kuaì zǐ xiàng yào xià guō , yòu xiàng fǔ zhōng de ròu .

4 Dào le zāo zāi de shíhou , zhèxie rén bì āi qiú Yēhéhuá , tā què bù yīngyún tāmen . nàshí tā bì zhào tāmen suǒ xíng de è shì , xiàng tāmen yǎn miàn .

5 Lún dào shǐ wǒ mín zǒu chāi lù de xiānzhī , tāmen yá chǐ yǒu suǒ jiaó de , tāmen jiù hūhǎn shuō , píngān le . fán bú gōngjǐ tāmen chī de , tāmen jiù yùbeì gōngjī tā ( yùbeì gōngjī tā huò zuò shuō bì zāoyù dāobīng ) Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō ,