Micah 7:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

No one is loyal to God; no one does right. Everyone is brutal and eager to deceive everyone else.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

They are hungry lions hiding in the bushes, hoping to catch some helpless passer-by. They trap the poor in nets and drag them away.

Psalm 12:1

Please help me, LORD! All who were faithful and all who were loyal have disappeared.

Psalm 12:2

Everyone tells lies, and no one is sincere.

Psalm 57:6

Enemies set traps for my feet and struck me down. They dug a pit in my path, but fell in it themselves.

Proverbs 1:11

when they say, “Come on! Let's gang up and kill somebody, just for the fun of it!

Proverbs 12:6

Bad advice is a deadly trap, but good advice is like a shield.

Isaiah 3:5

You will each be cruel to friends and neighbours. Young people will insult their elders; no one will show respect to those who deserve it.

Isaiah 57:1

God's faithful people are dragged off and killed, and no one even cares. Evil sweeps them away,

Isaiah 59:7

You hurry off to do wrong or murder innocent victims. All you think about is sin; you leave ruin and destruction wherever you go.

Isaiah 9:19

The LORD All-Powerful was angry and used the people as fuel for a fire that scorched the land. They turned against each other

Jeremiah 16:16

But for now, I am sending enemies who will catch you like fish and hunt you down like wild animals in the hills and the caves.

Jeremiah 5:16

All of them are warriors, and their arrows bring death.

Jeremiah 5:26

A hunter traps birds and puts them in a cage, but some of you trap humans and make them your slaves. You are evil, and you lie and cheat to make yourselves rich. You are powerful

Jeremiah 8:6

I listen carefully, but none of you admit that you've done wrong. Without a second thought, you run down the wrong road like cavalry troops charging into battle.

Lamentations 4:18

Enemies hunted us down on every public street. Our time was up; our doom was near.

Ezekiel 22:12

Others of you accept money to murder someone. Your own people charge high interest when making a loan to other Israelites, and they get rich by cheating. Worst of all, you have forgotten me, the LORD God.

Ezekiel 24:6

These words mean that Jerusalem is doomed! The city is filled with murderers and is like an old, rusty pot. The meat is taken out piece by piece, and no one cares what happens to it.

Hosea 5:1

Listen, you priests! Pay attention, Israel! Listen, you members of the royal family. Justice was your duty. But at Mizpah and Mount Tabor you trapped the people.

Hosea 6:9

You priests are like a gang of robbers in ambush. On the road to Shechem you murder and commit other horrible crimes.

Micah 2:8

My people, you have even stolen clothes right off the backs of your unsuspecting soldiers returning home from battle.

Micah 3:10

You make cruelty and murder a way of life in Jerusalem.

Micah 3:2

but you prefer to do evil instead of what is right. You skin my people alive. You strip off their flesh,

Zechariah 11:6

Tend those sheep because I, the LORD, will no longer have pity on the people of this earth. I'll turn neighbour against neighbour and make them slaves of a king. They will bring disaster on the earth, and I'll do nothing to rescue any of them.

Acts 24:9

The Jewish crowd spoke up and agreed with what Tertullus had said.

1 Samuel 24:11

Your Majesty, look at what I'm holding. You can see that it's a piece of your robe. If I could cut off a piece of your robe, I could have killed you. But I let you live, and that should prove I'm not trying to harm you or to rebel. I haven't done anything to you, and yet you keep trying to ambush and kill me.

1 Samuel 26:20

Don't let me die in a land far away from the LORD. I'm no more important than a flea! Why should the king of Israel hunt me down as if I were a bird in the mountains?”