the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Micah 6:12
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For the wealthy of the city are full of violence,and its residents speak lies;the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
"For the rich people of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
The rich people of the city do cruel things. Its people tell lies; they do not tell the truth.
"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.
For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
"For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For the rich men of the city are full of violence,And her inhabitants speak lies,And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
The rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants tell lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
The rich in that city are still cruel. The people there still tell lies. Yes, they tell their lies.
For the rich men of the land are full of deceit, and its inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is treacherous in their mouth.
Your rich people exploit the poor, and all of you are liars.
Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For her rich ones are full of violence, and ones living in her speak a lie, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes.
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?
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
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.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
The city's rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.
For her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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.
The rich men of the city have hurt many people. Her people are liars. Their tongues in their mouths speak false words.
Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
For, her rich men, are full of violence, and, her inhabitants, have spoken falsehood, - and, their tongue, is deceitful in their mouth.
By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
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
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
More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.
Then the Lord said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years."
The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.
The Lord saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.
But the Lord was pleased with Noah,
So he told Noah: Cruelty and violence have spread everywhere. Now I'm going to destroy the whole earth and all its people.
Get some good lumber and build a boat. Put rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.
Make it four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about eighteen inches between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three stories high and put a door on one side.
I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.
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.
