Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully. 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. English Standard Version Your rich men are full of violence; your 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. King James Bible 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 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 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. NASB 1995 “For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. NASB 1977 “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. 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. 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. Holman 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.” 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For its rich men are filled with fraud and its inhabitants speak falsehood and their tongue is deceitful in their mouths Brenton Septuagint Translation 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? Contemporary English Version You rich people are violent, and everyone tells lies. 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. 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation The rich people in the city are violent. Those who live in the city speak lies, and their tongues speak deceitfully. Good News Translation Your rich people exploit the poor, and all of you are liars. International Standard Version Her rich people are filled with violence, and her inhabitants tell lies— their tongues speak deceitfully! JPS Tanakh 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. Literal Standard Version Whose rich ones have been full of violence, | And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, | And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth. Majority Standard Bible For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. New American Bible You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths! NET Bible The city's rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words. New Revised Standard Version Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths. New Heart English Bible Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. 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. World English Bible Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Punishment of Israel…11Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights? 12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. 13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.… Cross References Psalm 35:20 For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land. Isaiah 1:23 Your 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. Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence. Isaiah 5:7 For 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. Jeremiah 9:2 If 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 9:5 Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. Jeremiah 9:8 Their 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. Treasury of Scripture 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 rich. Micah 2:1,2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand… Micah 3:1-3,9-11 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? … Micah 7:2-6 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… spoken. Isaiah 59:3-15 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness… Jeremiah 9:2-6,8 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men… Hosea 7:1,13 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without… Jump to Previous City Cruel Deceitful Deceitfully False. Falsehood Full Inhabitants Lies Mouth Ones Residents Rich Speak Speech Thereof Tongue Tongues True. Violence Violent WealthJump to Next City Cruel Deceitful Deceitfully False. Falsehood Full Inhabitants Lies Mouth Ones Residents Rich Speak Speech Thereof Tongue Tongues True. Violence Violent WealthMicah 6 1. God's punishment for ingratitude;6. for ignorance, 10. for injustice; 16. and for idolatry. (12) The rich men thereof--i.e., of the city. The sins of spoliation and fraud were practised by men who had not even the pitiable excuse of poverty and distress.Verse 12. - The rich men thereof; i.e. of the city mentioned in ver. 9. They have just been charged with injustice and fraud, now they are denounced for practising every kind of violence. And not only the rich, but all the inhabitants fall under censure for lying and deceit. Their tongue is deceitful; literally, deceit; they cannot open their mouth without speaking dangerous and destructive lies. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forאֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that the wealthy of the city עֲשִׁירֶ֙יהָ֙ (‘ă·šî·re·hā) Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 6223: Rich are full of מָלְא֣וּ (mā·lə·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of violence, חָמָ֔ס (ḥā·mās) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain and its residents וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ (wə·yō·šə·ḇe·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry speak דִּבְּרוּ־ (dib·bə·rū-) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue lies; שָׁ֑קֶר (šā·qer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood their tongues וּלְשׁוֹנָ֖ם (ū·lə·šō·w·nām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3956: The tongue are deceitful רְמִיָּ֥ה (rə·mî·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7423: Remissness, treachery in their mouths. בְּפִיהֶֽם׃ (bə·p̄î·hem) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to Links Micah 6:12 NIVMicah 6:12 NLT Micah 6:12 ESV Micah 6:12 NASB Micah 6:12 KJV Micah 6:12 BibleApps.com Micah 6:12 Biblia Paralela Micah 6:12 Chinese Bible Micah 6:12 French Bible Micah 6:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Micah 6:12 Her rich men are full of violence (Mc Mic. 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