Micah 6:12

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit [itself] in their mouth.

Leeser Tanakh

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

11Can I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag [full] of deceptive weights?

13Therefore have I also smitten thee with sore wounds, making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

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Cross References

Psalms 120:2O Lord, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, and from a tongue of deceit.

Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is sunk to decay, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to incense the eyes of his glory.

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

Jeremiah 5:26For there are found among my people wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that layeth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Jeremiah 9:2(9:1) Oh that one would place me in the wilderness in a lodging-place of wayfaring men. that I might leave my people, and go from them! for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel were each [ready] with his arm within thee, in order 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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