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English Standard Version

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes.
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 voice of the Lord cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it! 10 Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? 11 Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12 Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins. 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword. 15 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine. 16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn 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
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord .
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.
Genesis 6:16
Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

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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