Micah 7:2

New English Translation

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

Psalm 12:1

Deliver, Lord! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.

Psalm 12:2

People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.

Isaiah 57:1

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

Isaiah 59:7

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

Isaiah 9:19

Because of the anger of the Lord who commands armies, the land was scorched, and the people became fuel for the fire. People had no compassion on one another.

Jeremiah 16:16

But for now I, the Lord, say: “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.

Jeremiah 5:16

All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

Jeremiah 5:26

“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, “I have done wrong!” All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.

Lamentations 4:18

Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come! ק (Qof)

Ezekiel 22:12

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 24:6

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rot is in it, whose rot has not been removed from it! Empty it piece by piece. No lot has fallen on it.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.

Hosea 6:9

The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes!

Micah 2:8

but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.

Micah 3:10

You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

Micah 3:2

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

Zechariah 11:6

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

Acts 24:9

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

1 Samuel 24:11

Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.

1 Samuel 26:20

Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country.”