en_tn_condensed/mic/03/02.md

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/translate/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/translate/figs-metaphor)