Micah 6:12

WEB

¹²Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

KJV

¹²For the rich men^[+] thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

BSB

¹²For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

FBV

¹²Your rich people make money by using violence; they tell lies and practice deceit.

Extra References

Jeremiah 9:8

⁸Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Hosea 7:13

¹³Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Isaiah 1:23

²³Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ²They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Jeremiah 9:2-6

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. ³“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says the LORD. ⁴“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. ⁵Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. ⁶Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 3:8

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 5:7

⁷For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Romans 3:13

¹³“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.”“The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Zephaniah 3:3

³Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

Amos 5:11-12

¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. ¹²For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.