Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

Majority Standard Bible

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 excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

Read all of Micah 6

Cross References

Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Jeremiah 5:26For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Jeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Ezekiel 22:6See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Micah 6:12