Micah 3:2-3

Micah 3:2-3

[2] Who hate  the good,  and love  the evil;  who pluck off  their skin  from off them, and their flesh  from off their bones;  [3] Who also eat  the flesh  of my people,  and flay  their skin  from off them; and they break  their bones,  and chop them in pieces,  as for the pot,  and as flesh  within  the caldron. 

What does Micah 3:2-3 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Yet these rulers had stood justice on its head. They hated good and loved evil (cf. Proverbs 8:13; Isaiah 1:16-17; Amos 5:15). Tearing the flesh off the people, eating their flesh, and cooking their bones all represent abuse of their victims for their own selfish ends. The figure is of a hunter, and the implication is that the rulers regarded and treated the ordinary citizens as mere animals rather than as human beings. The rich stripped the poor of their money and property and oppressed them unmercifully (cf. Zephaniah 3:3)
"Nothing short of new appetites, resulting from the new birth ( John 3:3-8) can remedy moral corruption." [1]