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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)