Micah 6:12 - Tree of Life Version For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit. 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 never speak shalom, but devise deceitful words against the quiet ones in the land.
But they flattered Him with their mouth and kept lying to Him with their tongue.
Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah is fallen. For their tongue and their actions are against Adonai, defying the eyes of His glory.
For the vineyard of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah the planting of His delight. He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry!
For such things shall I not punish them?” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
“When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, even the wickedness of Samaria, for they practice fraud. So a thief breaks in; a marauding band will raid outside.
Oy to them! For they strayed from Me. Devastation to them! For they rebelled against Me. Should I redeem them after they spoke lies about Me?
Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.
Reclining on beds of ivory, sprawling on their couches, dining on lambs from the flock and calves from amid the stall,
In that day I will punish all who skip over the threshold while filling their master’s House with violence and deceit.
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.
The Judean leaders also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were true.
Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.