Micah 7:2

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Summary

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Is perished

They all

Hunt

Habakkuk 1:15

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Bible References

Is perished

{To the Chanter upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} Help me, LORD, for there is not one godly man left: for the faithful are diminished from among the children of men.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one.

But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

as it is written, "There is none righteous, no not one:

They all

if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

The talking of the ungodly is how they may lay wait for blood; but the mouth of the righteous will deliver them.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.

Their arrows are sudden death; yea, they themselves be very giants.

Hunt

And moreover my father, see yet the tip of thy coat in my hand. And inasmuch as I killed thee not too, when I cut off the tip of thy coat; understand and see that there is neither evil nor rebelliousness in me, and that I have not sinned against thee. And yet thou huntest after my soul to take it.

And yet I hope my blood shall not fall to the earth before the face of the LORD, though the king of Israel be come out to hunt a flea, as men hunt the partridges in the mountains."

They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.

For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.

Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will send out many fishers to take them, and after that will I send out many hunters to hunt them out, from all mountains and hills and out of the caves of stones.

{Tsadi} They lay so sharp wait for us, that we can not go safe upon the streets: for our end is come, our days are fulfilled, our end is here.

They take up all with their angle, they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn: whereof they rejoice and are glad.

General references

"'Cursed be he that taketh a reward to slay innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

And Delilah said to Samson, "Oh, tell me where thy great strength lieth, and if thou were bound wherewith men might constrain thee."

And the LORD said unto me, "It is found out, that whole Israel and all these citizens of Jerusalem are gone back.

Many a one have ye murdered in this city, and filled the streets full of the slain.

Why lettest thou me see weariness and labour? Tyranny and violence are before me, power overgoeth right:

The Jews likewise affirmed, saying that it was even so.