Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit 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!
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.
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.
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 make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit? 12 For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth. 13 And also I made sick, striking thee, making desolate for thy sins.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:23
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue a deadly arrow, speaking deceit; in his mouth he will speak peace to his neighbor, and be will lay his wait in his midst
Hosea 7:13
Wo! to them, for they fled from me: destruction to them because they transgressed against me: and I will redeem them and they spake falsehoods against me.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Who will give me in the desert a lodging-place of travelers? and I will leave my people and go from them, for they all commit adultery; an assembly of those acting faithlessly.
Micah 2:1-2
Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand.
Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem was weak, and Judah fell: for their tongues and their doings are against Jehovah to embitter the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 59:3-15
For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.
Jeremiah 5:5-6
I will go for myself to the great ones, and I will speak to them; for they knew the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God: surely they together broke the yoke and tore away the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
for evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men.
Jeremiah 6:6-7
For thus said Jehovah of armies, Cut off the wood, and throw up a mound against Jerusalem: this the city to be reviewed; oppression is wholly in her midst
Ezekiel 22:6-13
Behold, the princes of Israel they were a man to his arm to pour out;blood in thee.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
A conspiracy of her prophets in her midst as a roaring lion rending the prey; they consumed the soul; they will take the wealth and the precious thing; they multiplied her widows in her midst
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 7:1
As I healed to Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Shomeron: for they did falsehood, and the thief will come in, and the troop invaded without
Amos 5:11-12
For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.
Amos 6:1-3
Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.
Micah 3:1-3
And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
Micah 3:9-11
Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.
Micah 7:2-6
The merciful one perished from the earth, and none upright among men: they all will lie in wait for bloods; they will hunt each his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her chiefs in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves; they laid not up for the morning.
Romans 3:13
Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips: