Micah 7:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

For the choir director: according to Sheminith. A Davidic psalm.Help, Lord, for no faithful one remains;
the loyal have disappeared from the human race.

For the choir director. Davidic.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.

The righteous one perishes,
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence of evil.

as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.

They all

If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.
Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush,
but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Their feet run after evil,
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

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

Hunt

See, my father! Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Look and recognize that there is no evil or rebellion in me. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.

So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a flea, like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.”

They prepared a net for my steps;
I was despondent.
They dug a pit ahead of me,
but they fell into it!Selah

for wicked men live among My people.
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.

They set a trap;
they catch men.

“I am about to send for many fishermen”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

צ TsadeOur steps were closely followed
so that we could not walk in our streets.
Our end drew near; our time ran out.
Our end had come!

The Chaldeans pull them all up with a hook,
catch them in their dragnet,
and gather them in their fishing net;
that is why they are glad and rejoice.

General references

‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me, where does your great strength come from? How could someone tie you up and make you helpless?”

The Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been discovered among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with the dead.

Why do You force me to look at injustice?
Why do You tolerate wrongdoing?
Oppression and violence are right in front of me.
Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.

The Jews also joined in the attack, alleging that these things were so.