Micah 7:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

they lurk in secret like a lion in its den; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

Psalm 12:1

Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

Psalm 12:2

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

Proverbs 12:6

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

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder and the base to the honorable.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one considers why; the devout are taken away, while no one understands that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land was burned, and the people became like fuel for the fire; no one spared another.

Jeremiah 16:16

I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is like an open tomb; all of them are mighty warriors.

Jeremiah 5:26

For the wicked are found among my people. They lie in wait like hunters; destroyers, they catch humans.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have given heed and listened, but they do not speak honestly; no one repents of wickedness, saying, “What have I done!” All of them turn to their own course like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, the pot whose crud is in it, whose crud has not gone out of it! Empty it piece by piece, making no choice at all.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you, for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor

Hosea 6:9

As robbers lie in wait for someone, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the road to Shechem; they commit a monstrous crime.

Micah 2:8

But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!

Micah 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones,

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbor and each into the hand of the king, and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.”

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge by asserting that all this was true.

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father, see the corner of your cloak in my hand, for by the fact that I cut off the corner of your cloak and did not kill you, you may know for certain that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you are hunting me to take my life.

1 Samuel 26:20

Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”