Micah 3:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.

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  • Jer 22:13-17 : 13 Wo vnto him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnesse, and his chambers without equitie: he vseth his neighbour without wages, and giueth him not for his worke. 14 He saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers: so he will make him selfe large windowes, and feeling with cedar, and paint them with vermilion. 15 Shalt thou reigne, because thou closest thy selfe in cedar? Did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper, when he executed iudgement and iustice? 16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde? 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
  • Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the mids thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the riches and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the mids thereof. 26 Her Priests haue broken my Lawe, and haue defiled mine holy things: they haue put no difference betweene the holy and prophane, neither discerned betweene the vncleane, and the cleane, and haue hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am prophaned among them. 27 Her princes in the mids thereof are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre. 28 And her prophets haue dawbed them with vntempered morter, seeing vanities, and diuining lies vnto them, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God, when the Lord had not spoken.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Ho, he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euil. 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thine owne house, by destroying many people, and hast sinned against thine owne soule. 11 For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shal answere it. 12 Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.
  • John 11:50 : 50 Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

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    12Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.

  • Mic 3:11-12
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    11The heads thereof iudge for rewardes, and the Priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophets thereof prophecie for money: yet wil they leane vpon the Lorde, and say, Is not the Lorde among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.

    12Therefore shall Zion for your sake bee plowed as a field, & Ierusalem shalbe an heape, and the mountaine of the house, as the hye places of the forest.

  • Mic 3:9
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    9Heare this, I pray you, ye heades of the house of Iaakob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13For the sinnes of her Prophets, and the iniquities of her Priests, that haue shed the blood of the iust in the middes of her.

    14They haue wandred as blinde men in the streetes, and they were polluted with blood, so that they would not touch their garments.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.

  • Joel 3:21
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    21For I will clense their blood, that I haue not clensed, and the Lord will dwell in Zion.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.

  • Isa 1:21
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    21Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? It was full of iudgement, and iustice lodged therein, but now they are murtherers.

  • Amos 3:10
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    10For they knowe not to doe right, sayth the Lorde: they store vp violence, and robbery in their palaces.

  • Isa 3:8-9
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    8Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their tongue & workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.

    9The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3Their blood haue they shead like waters rounde about Ierusalem, and there was none to burie them.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Isa 1:27
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    27Zion shalbe redeemed in iudgement, and they that returne in her, in iustice.

  • Joel 3:19
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    19Egypt shalbe waste, and Edom shall be a desolate wildernesse, for the iniuries of the childre of Iudah, because they haue shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Zeph 3:4
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    4Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie: they haue wrested the Lawe.

  • Mic 1:5
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    5For the wickednes of Iaakob is all this, & for the sinnes of the house of Israel: what is the wickednes of Iaakob? Is not Samaria? & which are the hie places of Iudah? Is not Ierusalem?

  • Nah 3:1
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    1O bloodie citie, it is all full of lyes, and robberie: the pray departeth not:

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Her princes in the mids thereof are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.

  • Jer 6:6
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    6For thus hath the Lord of hostes said, Hewe downe wood, and cast a mounte against Ierusalem: this citie must be visited: all oppression is in the middes of it.

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    6Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood.

    7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.

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    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15Their feete are swift to shead blood.

  • Ps 122:3
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    3Ierusalem is builded as a citie, that is compact together in it selfe:

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Make a chaine: for the lande is full of the iudgement of blood, and the citie is full of crueltie.

  • Ps 51:18
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    18Bee fauourable vnto Zion for thy good pleasure: builde the walles of Ierusalem.

  • Ezek 22:12-13
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    12In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

    13Beholde, therefore I haue smitten mine hands vpon thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood, which hath bene in the middes of thee.

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    21They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9Then saide he vnto me, The iniquitie of the house of Israel, and Iudah is exceeding great, so that the lande is full of blood, and the citie full of corrupt iudgement: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, & the Lord seeth vs not.

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    8They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.

  • Ezek 22:9
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    9In thee are men that cary tales to shed blood: in thee are they that eate vpon the mountaines: in ye mids of thee they comit abomination.

  • Jer 5:10-11
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    10Clime vp vpon their walles, and destroy them, but make not a full ende: take away their batilments, for they are not the Lords.

    11For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.

  • Lam 1:17
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    17Zion stretcheth out her handes, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath appoynted the enemies of Iaakob rounde about him: Ierusalem is as a menstruous woman in the middes of them.

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    11Nowe also many nations are gathered against thee, saying, Zion shalbe condemned and our eye shall looke vpon Zion.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

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    3Then say, Thus sayth the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middes of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against her selfe to pollute her selfe.

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    17At that time they shal cal Ierusalem, The throne of the Lord, & all the nations shall be gathered vnto it, euen to the Name of the Lorde in Ierusalem: and thence foorth they shal followe no more the hardnesse of their wicked heart.

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    10The princes of Iudah were like them that remoue the bounde: therefore will I powre out my wrath vpon them like water.

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    11They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquitie of their fathers: let them not rise vp nor possesse the land, nor fil the face of the world with enemies.

  • Mal 1:4
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    4Though Edom say, wee are impouerished, but we will returne and build the desolate places, yet sayeth the Lorde of hostes, they shall builde, but I will destroy it, and they shall call them, The border of wickednes, and the people, with whome the Lord is angrie for euer.

  • Jer 22:13
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    13Wo vnto him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnesse, and his chambers without equitie: he vseth his neighbour without wages, and giueth him not for his worke.