Micah 6:12
The rich men are full of violence, 1 the inhabitants have spoken lies, 1 and their tongue in their mouth is deceitful. 1
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Psalms 120:2Rescue my life, Yahweh, from those who lie with their lips 1 and deceive with their tongues. 1
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, 1 because their speech and their actions are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory. 1
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin. 1 Your lips speak lies and your tongue speaks maliciously. 1
Jeremiah 5:26For wicked men are found with my people. They watch as someone crouches to capture birds; 1 they set a trap and catch people. 1
Jeremiah 9:2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 1 If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors! 1
Ezekiel 22:6Behold! The rulers of Israel, each one by his own power, have come to you to pour out 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 →