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

General references

Bible References

Is perished

Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].

as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

They all

If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

The words of the wicked lay in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Their quiver is an open sepulcher. They are all mighty men.

Hunt

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when [a man] hunts a partridge in the mountains.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says LORD, and they shall fish them up. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

General references

Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent man. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lays, and with what thou might be bound to afflict thee.

And LORD said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

And the Jews also agreed, claiming to have these things this way.