Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
Cross References
Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 5:26For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Ezekiel 22:6“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, 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 →