Micah 6:12 References

12 "For the rich men of the city are full of aviolence, Her residents speak blies, And their ctongue is deceitful in their mouth.

b Jeremiah 9:2-6, Jeremiah 9:8, Hosea 7:13, Amos 2:4


Jeremiah 9

2 aOh that I had in the desert A wayfarers' lodging place; That I might leave my people And go from them! For all of them are badulterers, An assembly of ctreacherous men.
3 "They abend their tongue like their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they bproceed from evil to evil, And they cdo not know Me," declares the Lord.
4 "Let everyone abe on guard against his neighbor, And bdo not trust any brother; Because every cbrother deals craftily, And every neighbor dgoes about as a slanderer.
5 "Everyone adeceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They bweary themselves committing iniquity.
6 "Your adwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they brefuse to know Me," declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9

8 "Their atongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one bspeaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he csets an ambush for him.

Hosea 7

13 aWoe to them, for they have bstrayed from Me! Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me! I cwould redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

Amos 2

4 Thus says the Lord, "For three transgressions of aJudah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they brejected the law of the Lord And have not kept His statutes; Their clies also have led them astray, Those after which their dfathers walked.