Micah 6:12
Whose rich ones have been full of violence, || And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, || And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
11Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
13And I also, I have begun to strike you, || To make desolate, because of your sins.
Cross References
Psalms 120:2O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lying lip, || From a deceitful tongue!
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, || For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, || To provoke the eyes of His glory.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands have been defiled with blood, || And your fingers with iniquity, || Your lips have spoken falsehood, || Your tongue mutters perverseness.
Jeremiah 5:26For the wicked have been found among My people. He watches like one who sets snares, || They have set up a trap—they capture men.
Jeremiah 9:2Who gives me in a wilderness || A lodging-place for travelers? And I leave my people, and go from them, || For all of them [are] adulterers, || An assembly of treacherous ones.
Ezekiel 22:6Behold, princes of Israel—each according to his arm || Have been in you 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 →