Micah 7:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous person perishes, and no one takes it to heart; the faithful are taken away, with no one realising that the righteous person is taken away because of   evil.

Jeremiah 5:26

for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters  lying in wait.  , They set a trap; they catch men.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say #– #‘Come with us! Let’s set an ambush  and kill someone. Let’s attack some innocent person  just for fun!

Jeremiah 16:16

‘I am about to send for many fishermen’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

1 Samuel 24:11

Look, my father!  Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Recognise  that I’ve committed no crime or rebellion. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice.

Lamentations 4:18

Our steps were closely followed so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end approached;  our time ran out. Our end had come!

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is like an open grave; they are all warriors.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

1 Samuel 26:20

So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea,  like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.’

Isaiah 9:19

The land is scorched by the wrath of the  Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have paid careful attention. They do not speak what is right. No one regrets his evil, asking, “What have I done? ” Everyone has stayed his course like a horse rushing into battle.

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:6

‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot that has corrosion inside it, and its corrosion has not come out of it! Empty it piece by piece; lots should not be cast for its contents.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, royal house! For the judgement applies to you because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor.

Micah 2:8

But recently my people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war.

Micah 3:2

You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.

Zechariah 11:6

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbour and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.’

Isaiah 3:5

The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbour against neighbour; the young will act arrogantly towards the old, and the worthless towards the honourable.

Hosea 6:9

Like raiders who wait in ambush for someone, a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem. They commit atrocities.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the attack, alleging that these things were true.