Micah 6:12

Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

In Context

11As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.

13By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

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Cross References

Psalms 120:2Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Jeremiah 9:2Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Ezekiel 22:6Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

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 →

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