Micah 6:12 Cross References
Micah 6:12
12: 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.
Hosea 7:13
- "How terrible it will be for my people who have deserted me! Let them die, for they have rebelled against me. I wanted to redeem them, but they have only spoken lies about me.
Isaiah 1:23
- Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.
Jeremiah 9:8
- For their tongues aim lies like poisoned arrows. They promise peace to their neighbors while planning to kill them.
Isaiah 5:7
- This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.
Isaiah 3:8
- Judah and Jerusalem will lie in ruins because they speak out against the LORD and refuse to obey him. They have offended his glorious presence among them.
Micah 2:1
- How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
- When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!
Jeremiah 9:2
- Oh, that I could go away and forget them and live in a shack in the desert, for they are all adulterous and treacherous.
- "My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. And they only go from bad to worse! They care nothing for me," says the LORD.
- "Beware of your neighbor! Beware of your brother! They all take advantage of one another and spread their slanderous lies.
- They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning.
- They pile lie upon lie and utterly refuse to come to me," says the LORD.
Romans 3:13
- "Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their speech is filled with lies.The poison of a deadly snake drips from their lips."
Isaiah 59:3
- Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your mouth is full of lies, and your lips are tainted with corruption.
- No one cares about being fair and honest. Their lawsuits are based on lies. They spend their time plotting evil deeds and then doing them.
- They spend their time and energy spinning evil plans that end up in deadly actions.
- They cheat and shortchange everyone. Nothing they do is productive; all their activity is filled with sin. Violence is their trademark.
- Their feet run to do evil, and they rush to commit murder. They think only about sinning. Wherever they go, misery and destruction follow them.
Amos 5:11
- You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.
- For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
Zephaniah 3:3
- Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.
Ezekiel 22:6
- "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.
- Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.
- Inside your walls you despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.
- People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who take part in lewd activities.
- Men sleep with their fathers' wives and have intercourse with women who are menstruating.
Ezekiel 22:25
- Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
- Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
- Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
- And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
- Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.
Amos 6:1
- How terrible it will be for you who lounge in luxury and think you are secure in Jerusalem and Samaria! You are famous and popular in Israel, you to whom the people go for help.
- Go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and on down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.
- You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
Micah 7:2
- The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.
- They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.
- Even the best of them is like a brier; the straightest is more crooked than a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here.
- Don't trust anyone--not your best friend or even your wife!
- For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother. The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right in your own household.
Hosea 4:1
- Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! The LORD has filed a lawsuit against you, saying: "There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.
- You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
Jeremiah 5:26
- "Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They are continually setting traps for other people.
- Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.
- They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.
- Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?
Micah 3:1
- Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
- but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
- You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
Hosea 7:1
- "I wanted to heal Israel, but its sins were far too great. Samaria is filled with liars, thieves, and bandits!
Micah 3:9
- Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
- You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
- You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
Jeremiah 5:5
- I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they will know the LORD's ways and what God requires of them." But the leaders, too, had utterly rejected their God.
- So now a lion from the forest will attack them; a wolf from the desert will pounce on them. A leopard will lurk near their towns, tearing apart any who dare to venture out. For their rebellion is great, and their sins are many.
Jeremiah 6:6
- This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees for battering rams. Build ramps against the walls of Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, for she is wicked through and through.
- She spouts evil like a fountain! Her streets echo with the sounds of violence and destruction. Her sickness and sores are ever before me.