Micah 7:2

New King James Version

The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

Psalm 12:1

Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

Psalm 12:2

They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Psalm 57:6

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

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are, “Lie in wait for blood,” But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the honorable.”

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts The land is burned up, And the people shall be as fuel for the fire; No man shall spare his brother.

Jeremiah 16:16

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.

Jeremiah 5:26

‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.

Jeremiah 8:6

I listened and heard, But they do not speak aright. No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They tracked our steps So that we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near; Our days were over, For our end had come.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:6

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the bloody city, To the pot whose scum is in it, And whose scum is not gone from it! Bring it out piece by piece, On which no lot has fallen.

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For yours is the judgment, Because you have been a snare to Mizpah And a net spread on Tabor.

Hosea 6:9

As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness.

Micah 2:8

“Lately My people have risen up as an enemy— You pull off the robe with the garment From those who trust you, as they pass by, Like men returned from war.

Micah 3:10

Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:

Micah 3:2

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

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

Acts 24:9

And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.

1 Samuel 24:11

Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.

1 Samuel 26:20

So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”