Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
New American Standard Bible
Her residents speak
And their
King James Version
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Holman Bible
and its residents speak lies;
the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
International Standard Version
Her rich people are filled with violence, and her inhabitants tell lies their tongues speak deceitfully!
American Standard Version
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
“For the rich men of the city are full of violence [of every kind];
Her inhabitants speak lies
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Bible in Basic English
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
Darby Translation
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Julia Smith Translation
For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth.
King James 2000
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
Modern King James verseion
For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
among those that be full of riches unrighteously gotten: where the citizens deal with falsity, speak lies, and have deceitful tongues in their mouths?
NET Bible
The city's rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.
New Heart English Bible
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
The Emphasized Bible
For, her rich men, are full of violence, and, her inhabitants, have spoken falsehood, - and, their tongue, is deceitful in their mouth.
Webster
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
World English Bible
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Themes
Corruption » In politics in the church » The prevalence of violence
Deceit » The wicked full of » The prevalence of
Riches » Often lead to » Violence
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
The Nation » Appointed by God corrupt » The prevalence of violence
Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
The world » Conformity to forbidden creation of » Filled with violence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Destruction Of The Wicked
11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound, I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:23
Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
Hosea 7:13
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.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 59:3-15
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 5:5-6
I will go to the great men, and will speak to them, for they know the way of LORD, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Jeremiah 6:6-7
For thus has LORD of hosts said: Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She has oppression completely in the midst of her.
Ezekiel 22:6-13
Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.
Amos 5:11-12
Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Amos 6:1-3
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Micah 3:9-11
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
Micah 7:2-6
The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,