Micah 3:4

"who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron."

Key Reflection

In Micah 3:4, the metaphorical "eating of flesh" symbolizes the exploitation and oppression of God's people by those who claim spiritual authority but act with cruelty. The vivid imagery of peeling skin, breaking bones, and chopping in pieces underscores how these leaders harm their followers both physically and spiritually, treating them as mere objects for their own gain rather than serving their true needs.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Then shall they cry unto the Lord - “Then.” The prophet looks on to the Day of the Lord, which is always before his mind. So the Psalmist, speaking of a time or place not expressed, says, “There were they in great fear”Psalms 53:5. He sees it, points to it, as seeing what those to whom he spoke, saw not, and the more awfully, because he saw, with superhuman (certain) vision, what was “hidden from their eyes.” The then was not then, “in the time of grace,” but when the Day of grace should be over, and the Day of Judgment should be come.

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