Micah 6:12
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Cross References
Psalms 120:2Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.
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 →