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.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
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 smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.
Cross References
Psalms 120:2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
Isaiah 3:8For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings [are] against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.
Jeremiah 5:26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap — men they capture.
Jeremiah 9:2Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Ezekiel 22:6Lo, princes of Israel — each according to his arm Have been in thee 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 →