Micah 7:2

The Scriptures 1998

The kind one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor, drawing him into his net.

Psalm 12:1

Save, יהוה, for the kind one is no more! For the trustworthy have ceased from among the sons of men.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood with each other; They speak with flattering lips, a double heart.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my footsteps; My being was bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; They fell into the midst of it! Selah.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wrong are, “Lie in wait for blood,” But the mouth of the straight delivers them.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall exert pressure, man on man, man on his neighbour; the young rise up against the older, and the lightly esteemed against the highly esteemed.”

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous one has perished, and no one takes it to heart. And kind men are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous one is taken away from the presence of evil,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, wasting and ruin are in their highways.

Isaiah 9:19

The land shall be burned up by the wrath of יהוה  of hosts, and the people be as fuel for the fire. A man shall not spare his brother,

Jeremiah 16:16

“See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall 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, all of them are mighty men.

Jeremiah 5:26

‘For among My people are found wrong men who lie in wait as one who sets snares. They have set up a trap, they catch men.

Jeremiah 8:6

“I have listened and heard – they do not speak right. No man has repented of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ They all turned to their own course, like a horse rushing into battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They have hunted our steps From going in our streets. Our end was near, Our days were completed, For our end had come.

Ezekiel 22:12

“In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

Ezekiel 24:6

‘Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “Woe to the city of blood, to the pot in which there is rust, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece, on which no lot has fallen.

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, O priests! And listen, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 6:9

“And as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way to Sheḵ

Micah 2:8

“And lately My people have risen up as an enemy. You strip off the robe with the garment from those who trust you, as they pass by – those returning from battle.

Micah 3:10

those building up Tsiyon with bloodshed and Yerushalayim with unrighteousness.

Micah 3:2

you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,

Zechariah 11:6

“For I shall no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares יהוה. “But see, I am delivering up mankind, each one into his neighbour’s hand and into the hand of his sovereign. And they shall crush the earth, but I do not deliver from their hand.”

Acts 24:9

And the Yehuḏ

1 Samuel 24:11

“And my father, see! Yea, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not slay you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, while you are hunting my life to take it.

1 Samuel 26:20

“And now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of יהוה. For the sovereign of Yisra’ĕ