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

Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

They all

If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.

Hunt

See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains."

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

"Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.

General references

"'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

Again the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.