Miqueas 3:3

3 ustedes se devoran a mi pueblo,le arrancan la piel, le rompen los huesos;lo descuartizan como carne para la olla,como carne para el horno».

Miqueas 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.

Miqueas 3:3 In-Context

1 Entonces dije:«Escuchen, gobernantes de Jacob,autoridades del pueblo de Israel:¿Acaso no les corresponde a ustedesconocer el derecho?

2 Ustedes odian el bien y aman el mal;a mi pueblo le arrancan la piel del cuerpoy la carne de los huesos;

3 ustedes se devoran a mi pueblo,le arrancan la piel, le rompen los huesos;lo descuartizan como carne para la olla,como carne para el horno».

4 Ya le pedirán auxilio al SEÑOR,pero él no les responderá;esconderá de ellos su rostroporque hicieron lo malo.

5 Esto es lo que dice el SEÑOR contra ustedes,profetas que descarrían a mi pueblo:«Con el estómago lleno, invitan a la paz;con el vientre vacío, declaran la guerra.