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Micah 6:12

For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Measure;   Rich, the;   Thompson Chain Reference - Corruption;   Deceit;   Evil;   Nation, the;   Truth-Falsehood;   Violence;   World, the;   The Topic Concordance - Deception;   Lying/lies;   Satisfaction;   Sin;   Violence;   Wealth;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Micah, book of;   Steal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Micah, Book of;   Slothful;   Violence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence,and its residents speak lies;the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
Hebrew Names Version
Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
King James Version (1611)
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
King James Version
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
English Standard Version
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
New American Standard Bible
"For the rich people of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
New Century Version
The rich people of the city do cruel things. Its people tell lies; they do not tell the truth.
Amplified Bible
"For the rich men of the city are full of violence [of every kind]; Her inhabitants speak lies And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the rich men of the city are full of violence,And her inhabitants speak lies,And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
Contemporary English Version
You rich people are violent, and everyone tells lies.
Complete Jewish Bible
The rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants tell lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
Darby Translation
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
The rich in that city are still cruel. The people there still tell lies. Yes, they tell their lies.
George Lamsa Translation
For the rich men of the land are full of deceit, and its inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is treacherous in their mouth.
Good News Translation
Your rich people exploit the poor, and all of you are liars.
Lexham English Bible
Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Literal Translation
For her rich ones are full of violence, and ones living in her speak a lie, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.
American Standard Version
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Bible in Basic English
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?
English Revised Version
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
World English Bible
Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in whiche riche men therof ben fillid with wickidnesse? And men dwellynge ther ynne spaken leesyng, and the tunge of hem was gileful in the mouth of hem.
Update Bible Version
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
New English Translation
The city's rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.
New King James Version
For her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
New Living Translation
The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can no longer tell the truth.
New Life Bible
The rich men of the city have hurt many people. Her people are liars. Their tongues in their mouths speak false words.
New Revised Standard
Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, her rich men, are full of violence, and, her inhabitants, have spoken falsehood, - and, their tongue, is deceitful in their mouth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.
Revised Standard Version
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
amonge those that be full off riches vnrightuously gotten: where the citesyns deale with falsede, speake lyes, and haue disceatfull tunges in their mouthes?

Contextual Overview

9 The Lordes voyce cryeth vnto the citie, and the man that shalbe saued considereth thy name: hearken what is your rodde, & heare him that warneth you. 10 Are not yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abhominable? 11 Should I iustifie the false balaunces, and the bagge of deceitfull weightes? 12 For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes. 13 Therefore I wyll take in hande to punishe thee, and to make thee desolate, because of thy sinnes. 14 Thou shalt eate, and not haue inough: yea, thou shalt bring thy selfe downe in the middes of thee, thou shalt flee, but not escape, and those that thou wouldest saue, wyll I deliuer to the sworde. 15 Thou shalt sowe, but not reape, thou shalt presse out Oliues, but oyle shalt thou not haue to annoynt thy selfe withall: thou shalt tread out sweete must, but shalt drincke no wine. 16 Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri, and all the customes of the house of Ahab, ye walke in their counsels: therfore wyl I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be hissed at, and ye shall beare the reproche of my people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the rich: Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 3:9-11, Micah 7:2-6, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 5:7, Jeremiah 5:5, Jeremiah 5:6, Jeremiah 5:26-29, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 6:7, Ezekiel 22:6-13, Ezekiel 22:25-29, Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:2, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Amos 6:1-3, Zephaniah 3:3

spoken: Isaiah 59:3-15, Jeremiah 9:2-6, Jeremiah 9:8, Hosea 7:1, Hosea 7:13, Romans 3:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:13 - in thy bag Psalms 5:9 - For Proverbs 4:17 - General Isaiah 59:6 - their works Jeremiah 9:5 - they will Ezekiel 7:11 - Violence Ezekiel 8:17 - for Ezekiel 28:16 - filled Hosea 11:12 - compasseth Zechariah 8:16 - Speak Acts 24:9 - General James 2:6 - Do James 5:1 - ye

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
Genesis 6:2
And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.
Genesis 6:4
But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.
Genesis 6:5
But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
Genesis 6:13
And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make thee an Arke of Pine trees: Habitations shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche.
Genesis 6:15
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
Genesis 6:16
A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the rich men thereof are full of violence,.... That is, the rich men of the city, to whom the voice of the Lord cried, Micah 6:9. Jerusalem or Samaria, or any or all the cities of Israel and Judah; the rich men of these cities, who had enough of the world, and were under no temptation to do an ill thing, to get money; and yet their hands and their houses, and their treasuries, as the Targum, were full of goods gotten by violent measures, by the oppression of the poor and needy:

and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies; the rest of the inhabitants, who were not so rich as others, and who had it not in the power of their hands to oppress as others had; yet used deceitful and fraudulent methods to cheat their neighbours in buying and selling; and, to do this, did not stick to tell downright deliberate lies:

and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth; say one thing, and mean another; deceive their neighbours with their tongues in trade and commerce; averting things for truth they know to be false.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the rich men thereof - that is, “of the city, Micah 6:9 are full of violence.” It bad been little, had thieves and robbers lived by violence, but now, (as Isaiah at the same time upbraids them,) “her princes were become companions of thieves” Isaiah 1:23. Not the poor out of distress, but the rich, out of wantonness and exceeding covetousness and love of luxury, not only did wrong but were filled, not so much with riches, as with violence. Violence is the very meat and drink wherewith they are filled, yea, and wherewith they shall be filled, when it is returned upon their heads.

And the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies - Fraud is itself lying, and lying is its inseparable companion. Jerome: “Lying followeth the gathering together of riches, and the hard custom to lay up riches hath a deceitful tongue.” The sin, he saith, is spread throughout all her inhabitants; that is, all of them, as their custom, have spoken lies, and, even when they speak not, the lie is ready; “their tongue is deceitful (literally, deceit) in their mouth.” It is deceit, nothing but deceit, and that, deceit which should “overthrow” and ruin others. One intent on gain has the lie ever ready to be uttered, even when he speaks not. It lurks concealed, until it is needed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 6:12. For the rich men thereof are full of violence — This shows that they did not love mercy.

The inhabitants thereof have spoken lies — This shows that they did not humble themselves to walk with God.


 
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