Micah 7:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; each hunts his brother with a net.

American Standard Version (1901)

² The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Common English Bible

² Faithful ones have perished from the land; there is no righteous one among humanity. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; they hunt each other with nets.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The holy ones pass away from the land, and there is no one righteous among men. All wait in ambush for blood; a man hunts his brother to death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Micah 7:2 Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lurketh in the covert as a lion in his den: He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

Psalm 12:1

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; Thy soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood: But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation ard destruction are in their paths.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up: the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

Jeremiah 8:6

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD

Ezekiel 24:6

Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; no lot is fallen upon it.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertain the judgement; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

Hosea 6:9

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

Micah 2:8

But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Micah 3:10

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Micah 3:2

who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

Acts 24:9

And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.

1 Samuel 24:11

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my soul to take it.

1 Samuel 26:20

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.