Micah 3:1.2.3.

We are living in a time when people think right is wrong and good is evil. Social injustice runs rampant and Christian love has grown cold. It is sad and depressing to see God’s people in such a state. 

 Wicked rulers and false prophets seem to be the new normal. 

“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)

The rulers of Israel were responsible for ensuring justice and equity for all people in the land. The cruel oppression of the rulers against their own people is likened to cannibalism. The image is of a hunter cleaning his kill and making a pot of stew out of it.

The idea here is that one might not expect justice from pagan leaders in a faraway place. But the rulers of the people of God were expected to emphasize justice. Justice is one of the key concepts of the Law. Perverting justice was strongly prohibited by God. Yet this was precisely what the leaders of Judah were doing. They had used their authority to destroy justice rather than to establish it among the people.

Micah 3:1–3 (NKJV)

3 And I said:

“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,

And you rulers of the house of Israel:

Is it not for you to know justice?

² You who hate good and love evil;

Who strip the skin from My people,

And the flesh from their bones;

³ Who also eat the flesh of My people,

Flay their skin from them,

Break their bones,

And chop them in pieces

Like meat for the pot,

Like flesh in the caldron.”

Psalm 14:4 (NKJV)

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And do not call on the Lord?