Micah 6:12

Truth and honesty Money and wealth Words and speech

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?

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

¹³ Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

¹⁴ Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up 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 tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
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Hosea 7:13
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
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Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
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Jeremiah 9:2–6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
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Micah 2:1–2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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