Micah 7:2

New American Bible - revised edition

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket, hide there to trap the poor, snare them and close the net.

Psalm 12:1

For the leader; “upon the eighth.” A psalm of David.

Psalm 12:2

Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Psalm 57:6

Be exalted over the heavens, God; may your glory appear above all the earth.

Proverbs 1:11

do not go if they say, “Come along with us! Let us lie in wait for blood, unprovoked, let us trap the innocent;

Proverbs 12:6

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

Isaiah 3:5

And the people will oppress one another, yes, each one the neighbor. The child will be insolent toward the elder, and the base toward the honorable.

Isaiah 57:1

The just have perished, but no one takes it to heart; The steadfast are swept away, while no one understands. Yet the just are taken away from the presence of evil,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, violence and destruction are on their highways.

Isaiah 9:19

They hack on the right, but remain hungry; they devour on the left, but are not filled. Each devours the flesh of the neighbor;

Jeremiah 16:16

Look!—oracle of the Lord—I will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky crevice.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quivers are like open graves; all of them are warriors.

Jeremiah 5:26

For criminals lurk among my people; like fowlers they set traps, but it is human beings they catch.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened closely: they speak what is not true; No one regrets wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone keeps on running their course, like a horse dashing into battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They dogged our every step, we could not walk in our squares; Our end drew near, our time was up; yes, our end had come.

Ezekiel 22:12

There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you extort profit from your neighbor by violence. But me you have forgotten—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city full of blood! A pot containing filth, whose filth cannot be removed! Take out its pieces one by one, for no lot has fallen on their behalf.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, priests, Pay attention, house of Israel, Household of the king, give ear! For you are responsible for judgment. But you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread upon Tabor,

Hosea 6:9

Like brigands lying in wait is the band of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, indeed they commit a monstrous crime.

Micah 2:8

But you rise up against my people as an enemy: you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful, From those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war.

Micah 3:10

Who build up Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness!

Micah 3:2

you who hate what is good, and love evil? You who tear their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones;

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the earth—oracle of the Lord.—Yes, I will deliver them into each other’s power, or into the power of their kings; they will crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the attack and asserted that these things were so.

1 Samuel 24:11

You see for yourself today that the Lord just now delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I took pity on you instead. I decided, ‘I will not raise a hand against my master, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

1 Samuel 26:20

Do not let my blood spill on the ground far from the presence of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea as if he were hunting partridge in the mountains.”