Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 3:2

2 Who hate the good , and love the evil , who pluck off their skin from off them , and their flesh from off their bones .

In practice and affection these Rulers were directly contrary to what they should have been and done, they hated not onely to do good, but they hated the good which was to be done, and those that did it; and what kind of men may we judge they were who hated good men, and what was good, and by consequence hated also God himself.

Choose, embrace, encourage, delight in, and prefer both evil works and evil workers, and take pleasure to do evil your selves. The worst character that can be given of any sort of men.

You by Office are shepherds, and should feed, guide, heal, protect, and love the Flock, but you use them as cruelly as the shepherd, who instead of shearing of the Fleece, would pluck off the skin, and [illegible: 1 letter]lay them.

Another proverbial speech of the same import, and chargeth highest injustice, and inhumanity upon these Princes and Rulers, Vid. Ezek. 22.27. Zeph. 3.3.