Micah 7:2

English Standard Version 2016

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 12:1

Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

Jeremiah 5:26

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

Jeremiah 16:16

“Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Lamentations 4:18

They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

Jeremiah 5:16

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

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

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 has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Psalm 10:9

he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:6

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

Micah 2:8

But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

Micah 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

Psalm 12:2

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

Hosea 6:9

As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.

Acts 24:9

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