Micah 6:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [the city's] rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants have spoken lies and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. American Standard Version (1901) For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. Common English Bible in a city whose wealthy are full of violence and whose inhabitants speak falsehood with lying tongues in their mouths? Catholic Public Domain Version By this, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth. |
For they don't speak shalom, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
For Yerushalayim is ruined, and Yehudah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Yisra'el, and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
When I would heal Yisra'el, then the iniquity of Efrayim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Shomron; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Thus says the LORD: *For three transgressions of Yehudah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the LORD's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
The Judeans also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
*Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.* *The poison of vipers is under their lips;*