Micah 6:12
By this, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.
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In The King James Version
In Context
11Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag?
13And I, therefore, began to strike you with perdition because of your sins.
Cross References
Psalms 120:2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, because their words and their plans are against the Lord, in order to provoke the eyes of his majesty.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity.
Jeremiah 5:26For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.
Jeremiah 9:2Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.
Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the leaders of Israel have each used his arm to shed blood within you.
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:10-16
Accusations and Threatenings. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The Lord 's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their… Read the whole commentary →