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

To the chief Musician upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

They all

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

The words of the wicked are to lie 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; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Their quiver is as an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men.

Hunt

Moreover, my father, see, yes, 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 against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel hath come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen themselves. Selah.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

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

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

General references

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen.

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

And the 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 its streets with the slain.

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for devastation and violence are before me: and there are that raise strife and contention.

And the Jews also assented, saying, that these things were so.