12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


In Context

9 A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.

10 Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

11 Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

12 Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

13 And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

14 Thou — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit is in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

Micah 6:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:12Her rich men are violent; her people are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:12By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.