Micah 7:3

Modern English Version

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:30

He winks his eyes to plot perverse things; pursing his lips, he brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man accepts a concealed bribe to pervert the ways of justice.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the Lord comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed and shall cover her slain no more.

Isaiah 3:5

The people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the youth shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the inferior against the honorable.

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the rogue are evil; he devises wicked schemes to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

Jeremiah 3:5

Shall He reserve His anger forever? Shall He keep it to the end?” Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil things that you could.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Ezekiel 34:21

Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

Ezekiel 9:9

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perverseness, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Hosea 4:18

Their drink has soured, they have played the whore continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.

Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are grievous, you who oppress the just, who take a bribe and subvert the needy at the gate.

Micah 2:8

But lately My people rise up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly, like men returning from war.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the Lord they lean, saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Matthew 26:15

and said to them, “What will you give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the purposes of the hearts. Then everyone will have commendation from God.