Micah 7:2

Legacy Standard Bible

The holy one has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lies in wait in a hiding place as a lion in his lair; He lies in wait to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Psalm 12:1

Save, O Yahweh, for the holy man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

Psalm 12:2

They speak worthlessness to one another; With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

Psalm 57:6

They have set a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They dug a pit before me; They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

Proverbs 1:11

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

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will overwhelm the elder And the dishonorable, the honorable.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous man perishes, and no man puts it upon his heart; And men of lovingkindness are gathered away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is gathered away from evil,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, And they are quick to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

Isaiah 9:19

By the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is burned up, And the people are like fuel for the fire; No man spares his brother.

Jeremiah 16:16

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares Yahweh, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the crevices of the rocks.

Jeremiah 5:16

“Their quiver is like an open grave; All of them are mighty men.

Jeremiah 5:26

‘For wicked men are found among My people; They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap; They catch men.

Jeremiah 8:6

“I have given heed and heard, They have spoken what is not right; No man regretted his evil, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They hunted our steps So that we could not walk in our open squares; Our end drew near, Our days were finished, For our end had come.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes for the purpose of shedding blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 24:6

‘Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the city of blood, To the pot in which there is rust And whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, Without making a choice.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Give heed, 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 out on Tabor.

Hosea 6:9

And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed lewdness.

Micah 2:8

“And recently My people have arisen as an enemy— You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war.

Micah 3:10

Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

Micah 3:2

“You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another’s hand and into the hand of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

Acts 24:9

And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

1 Samuel 24:11

Now, my father, see! Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the edge of your robe and did not kill you, know and see that there is no evil or transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you are lying in wait for my life to take it.

1 Samuel 26:20

So now, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, just as one pursues a partridge in the mountains.”