# Connecting Statement:

Micah begins to compare the leaders of Israel to butchers.

# hate good and love evil

These nominal adjectives can be translated as adjectives. Alternate translation: "hate everything that is good and love everything that is evil" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-nominaladj]])

# you who tear off their skin, their flesh from their bones

A butcher cutting up animals into meat is a metaphor for the leaders being cruel to the poor. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])