Micah 6:12

The English Standar Version

Your[5] rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Cross References

Psalm 120:2

Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 35:20

For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.

Psalm 78:36

But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.[4]

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;[2] for righteousness, but behold, an outcry![3]

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

Amos 6:4

"Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's[2] house with violence and fraud.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.

Romans 3:13

"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."