Micah 6:12
10 Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- KJV
- For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- WEB
- Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
- ASV
- For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- DARBY
- For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- BLB
- How her rich men are full of violence, and her dwellers have spoken deception, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth!
- ÅB
- Du by, der de rike er fulle av vold,
der innbyggerne taler løgn
og har en svikefull tunge i munnen! - OTB
- For de rike i byen er fulle av vold,
Dens innbyggere lyver,
Og deres tunge er svikefull i deres munn. - B1930
- Du stad hvis rikmenn er fulle av urett, og hvis innbyggere taler løgn og har en svikefull tunge i sin munn!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
Read in contextHosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:2–6
If 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
Read in contextMicah 2:1–2
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Read in contextZephaniah 3:3
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
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