Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones? 12 Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Jeremiah 9:8
A slaughtering arrow is their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,
Isaiah 5:7
Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
Isaiah 3:8
For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
Isaiah 59:3-15
For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.
Jeremiah 5:5-6
I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.
Jeremiah 6:6-7
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She is the city to be inspected, Wholly -- she is oppression in her midst.
Ezekiel 22:6-13
Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,
Hosea 7:1
'When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,
Amos 5:11-12
Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.
Amos 6:1-3
Woe to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.
Micah 3:1-3
And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?
Micah 3:9-11
Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.
Micah 7:2-6
Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
Romans 3:13
A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.