Yehezkiel 22:27

22:27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.

Yehezkiel 22:1

The Sins of Jerusalem

22:1 The word of the Lord came to me:

Kisah Para Rasul 21:19

21:19 When Paul ¹  had greeted them, he began to explain ²  in detail ³  what God ⁴  had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Mikha 1:1-2

Introduction

1:1 This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to ⁵  Micah of Moresheth. He delivered this message ⁶  during the reigns of ⁷  Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The prophecies pertain to ⁸  Samaria ⁹  and Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

The Judge is Coming

1:2 Listen, all you nations! ¹¹ 

Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! ¹² 

The sovereign Lord will testify ¹³  against you;

the Lord will accuse you ¹⁴  from his majestic palace. ¹⁵ 

Mikha 3:1-3

God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders

3:1 I said,

“Listen, you leaders ¹⁶  of Jacob,

you rulers of the nation ¹⁷  of Israel!

You ought to know what is just, ¹⁸ 

3:2 yet you ¹⁹  hate what is good, ²⁰ 

and love what is evil. ²¹ 

You flay my people’s skin ²² 

and rip the flesh from their bones. ²³ 

3:3 You ²⁴  devour my people’s flesh,

strip off their skin,

and crush their bones.

You chop them up like flesh in a pot ²⁵  –

like meat in a kettle.

[21:19]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:19]  ² tn Or “to report,” “to describe.” The imperfect verb ἐξηγεῖτο (exhgeito) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[21:19]  ³ tn BDAG 293 s.v. εἷς 5.e has “καθ᾿ ἕν one after the other (hence τὸ καθ᾿ ἕν ‘a detailed list’: PLille 11, 8 [III bc]; PTebt. 47, 34; 332, 16) J 21:25. Also καθ᾿ ἕν ἕκαστον…Ac 21:19.”

[21:19]  ⁴ sn Note how Paul credited God with the success of his ministry.

[1:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “The word of the Lord which came to.”

[1:1]  ⁶ tn The words “he delivered this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[1:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the days of” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[1:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “which he saw concerning.”

[1:1]  ⁹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[1:1]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “O peoples, all of them.”

[1:2]  ¹² tn Heb “O earth and all its fullness”; KJV “and all that therein is.”

[1:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “May the sovereign Lord testify against you.” The verb וִיהִי (vihiy) is jussive, which normally conveys a volitional sense of an urgent request or prayer (“may he testify!”). However, GKC 325-26 §109.k notes that here the jussive form is used without any volitional sense for the ordinary imperfect, as a rhythmic shortening at the beginning of a sentence, thus removed as far as possible from the principal accent (cf. Gen 49:17; Deut 28:8; 1 Sam 10:5; 2 Sam 5:24; Hos 6:1; 11:4; Amos 5:14; Zeph 2:13; Zech 9:5; Pss 72:16-17; 104:31; Job 18:12; 20:23, 26, 28; 27:8; 33:21; 34:37; Ruth 3:4). Thus, the translation here renders the jussive as an ordinary imperfect. Some translations render it in a traditional jussive sense: (1) urgent request: “And let my Lord God be your accuser” (NJPS); or (2) dependent purpose/result: “that the Sovereign Lord may witness against you” (NIV).

[1:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord from his majestic palace.” Since the verb is omitted it is unclear whether the implied term be supplied from the preceding line (“he will testify against you”) or the following line (“he is leaving”). So the line may be rendered “the Lord will accuse you from his majestic temple” or “the Lord will come forth from his majestic temple.” Most translations render it literally, but some remove the ambiguity: “the Lord God accuses you from his holy temple” (CEV); “He speaks from his holy temple” (TEV).

[1:2]  ¹⁵ tn Or “his holy temple” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to the Lord’s dwelling in heaven, however, rather than the temple in Jerusalem (note the following verse, which describes a theophany).

[3:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “heads.”

[3:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[3:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Should you not know justice?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you should!”

[3:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the ones who.”

[3:2]  ²⁰ tn Or “good.”

[3:2]  ²¹ tn Or “evil.”

[3:2]  ²² 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.

[3:2]  ²³ tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”

[3:2]  sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism, because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed.

[3:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “who.”

[3:3]  ²⁵ tc The MT reads “and they chop up as in a pot.” The translation assumes an emendation of כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka’asher, “as”) to כִּשְׁאֵר (kish’er, “like flesh”).