Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 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 count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore I also have made you sick by striking you, laying you waste because of your sins.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:23
your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lies in ambush.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on 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 has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, 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 has muttered perverseness.
Jeremiah 5:5-6
I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!
Jeremiah 5:26-29
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 6:6-7
For so has Jehovah of Hosts said, Cut down trees and cast a mound against Jerusalem! She is the city to be visited; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
Ezekiel 22:6-13
Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 7:1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood. And the thief comes in, the troop of robbers plunders outside.
Amos 5:11-12
So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.
Amos 6:1-3
Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, who are noted as leader of the nations. And the house of Israel came to them.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Micah 3:9-11
Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.
Micah 7:2-6
The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;