Micah 7:2

Tree of Life Version

The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in a thicket. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the unfortunate one, dragging him away in his net.

Psalm 12:1

For the music director, on the eight-string lyre, a psalm of David.

Psalm 12:2

Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Psalm 57:6

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be over all the earth!

Proverbs 1:11

Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason!

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will oppress one another— each one by his fellow, each one by his neighbor. The child will be insolent to the aged, and dishonorable to the honorable.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous one perishes, but no one takes it to heart. Godly men are taken away, but no one discerns that the righteous man is taken from evil.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run after evil. They rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Violence and ruin are on their highways.

Isaiah 9:19

One grabs with the right hand but is hungry, and eats with the left hand but is not satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm—

Jeremiah 16:16

“Behold, I will send for many fishers,” says Adonai, “and they will fish for them. After that, I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is an open grave. They are all mighty warriors.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are wicked men, watching like bait-layers lying in wait. They set a trap—they catch men.

Jeremiah 8:6

I listened attentively, but they have not spoken what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Each one turns in his own direction, like a horse charging into battle.

Lamentations 4:18

They hunted our steps, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near. Our days were numbered, for our end had come.

Ezekiel 22:12

They accept bribes in order to shed blood in you; you have taken usurious interest. You have greedily gained by oppressing your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 24:6

Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Oy to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, whose rust will not come off it! Draw it out piece by piece —no lot would fall for it.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you: For you were a snare at Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor.

Hosea 6:9

Like marauding bands waiting for a man, so a company of priests murders on the way toward Shechem. For they have committed crime.

Micah 2:8

But recently My people arose as an enemy. You strip off the outer robe of a garment from those passing through confidently— those returning from war.

Micah 3:10

who build up Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with injustice.

Micah 3:2

You haters of good and lovers of evil, you are robbing their skin from them and their flesh from their bones.”

Zechariah 11:6

I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “Behold, I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

Acts 24:9

The Judean leaders also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were true.

1 Samuel 24:11

Moreover, my father, see! Yes, look at the corner of your robe in my hand! For in cutting off the corner of your robe, yet not killing you, you should know and realize that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I haven’t sinned against you, even though you are lying in wait for my life, to take it.

1 Samuel 26:20

So now, let not my blood fall to the ground, away from the presence of Adonai. For the king of Israel has come out to search for but a single flea, just as one hunts for a partridge in the mountains.”