Verse 3
Micah 3:3
New Living Translation
3
Yes, you eat my people’s flesh,<br>strip off their skin,<br>and break their bones.<br>You chop them up<br>like meat for the cooking pot.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָכְלוּ֮ שְׁאֵ֣ר עַמִּ/י֒ וְ/עוֹרָ/ם֙ מֵ/עֲלֵי/הֶ֣ם הִפְשִׁ֔יטוּ וְ/אֶת עַצְמֹֽתֵי/הֶ֖ם פִּצֵּ֑חוּ וּ/פָרְשׂוּ֙ כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּ/סִּ֔יר וּ/כְ/בָשָׂ֖ר בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ קַלָּֽחַת
English Translation
And what they ate was the fat of the people, and they stripped off their skin and broke their bones, and they spread them out as in a pot and as flesh in the midst of a cauldron.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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3
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