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Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

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ASV

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

KJV

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
עֲשִׁירֶ֙יהָ֙'a.shi.Rei.harich [people] itsH6223 →
מָלְא֣וּmal.'Uthey are fullH4390 →
חָמָ֔סcha.MasviolenceH2555 →
וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָve.yo.she.Vei.haand inhabitants itsH3427 →
דִּבְּרוּ־di.be.ru-they speakH1696 →
שָׁ֑קֶרSha.kerfalsehoodH8267 →
וּלְשׁוֹנָ֖םu.le.sho.Namand tongue theirH3956 →
רְמִיָּ֥הre.mi.Yah[is] deceitH7423 →
בְּפִיהֶֽם׃be.fi.Hemin mouth theirH6310 →

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James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.Jeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.Hosea 7:13Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.Micah 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.Jeremiah 9:2–6If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.Amos 5:11–12Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.Jeremiah 5:26–29For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.Micah 3:9–11Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

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Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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