Micah 7:3
On the evil [are] both hands to do [it] well, || The prince is asking—also the judge—for repayment, || And the great—he is speaking the mischief of his soul, || And they wrap it up.
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1 Kings 21:9and she writes in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people,
Proverbs 16:30Consulting his eyes to devise contrary things, || Moving his lips he has accomplished evil.
Isaiah 26:21For behold, YHWH is coming out of His place, || To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth on him, || And the earth has revealed her blood, || Nor does she cover her slain anymore!”
Jeremiah 4:22“For My people [are] foolish, || They have not known Me, || They [are] foolish sons, || Indeed, they [are] not intelligent, || They [are] wise to do evil, || And they have not known to do good.”
Ezekiel 22:6Behold, princes of Israel—each according to his arm || Have been in you to shed blood.
Ezekiel 34:21Because you thrust away with side and with shoulder, || And push all the diseased with your horns, || Until you have scattered them to the out-place,
Matthew Henry on Micah 7:2-7
The Sins of the People. ( b. c. 700.) 1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit. 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his… Read the whole commentary →