Micah 3:2

"Ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones."

In this and the next two verses, the false rulers of the people are accused in a metaphor of cannibalism. "You cannibals are eating the people up!" "We must not give any special meaning to the particular features, such as taking off the skin, and the boiling portions that are put into the pot."[3] The metaphor stands for robbing the people, defrauding them, oppressing them, denying them justice, etc., through such means as biased courts, political preference, bribery, and actual murder, as in the case of Ahab's violent dispossession of Naboth (1 Kings 21). Those whose duty it was to guard the public interest, that is, the rulers and judges of the people, were the leaders in such gross wickedness, totally perverting and corrupting the entire state.