Micah 7:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

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  • Ps 12:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. Deliver, LORD! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 “Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
  • Ps 14:1-3 : 1 For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God. 3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
  • Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)
  • 1 Sam 24:11 : 11 Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.
  • 1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the LORD’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country.”
  • Prov 12:6 : 6 The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.
  • Jer 5:16 : 16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 But for now I, the LORD, say:“I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.
  • Lam 4:18 : 18 צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!
  • Mic 3:10 : 10 You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.
  • Hab 1:15-17 : 15 The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy. 16 Because of his success he offers sacrifices to his throw net and burns incense to his dragnet; for because of them he has plenty of food, and more than enough to eat. 17 Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?
  • Rom 3:10-18 : 10 just as it is written:“There is no one righteous, not even one, 11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.” 13 “Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.” 14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood, 16 ruin and misery are in their paths, 17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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  • Mic 7:3
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    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Isa 57:1
    76%

    1The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

  • Eccl 7:20
    76%

    20For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

  • Jer 5:26
    76%

    26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

  • Ps 14:3-4
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    75%

    3Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

    4All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.

  • Prov 1:16-18
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    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

    17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

    18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

  • Ps 53:1-3
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    74%

    1For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

    2God looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

    3Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

  • Ps 37:32
    74%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Rom 3:11-12
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    11there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

    12All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

  • Isa 59:15
    73%

    15Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The LORD watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.

  • Prov 29:10
    73%

    10Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15Exceptions to the Law of Retribution During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

  • Amos 5:7
    72%

    7The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

  • Mic 7:1
    72%

    1Micah Laments Judah’s Sin Woe is me! For I am like those gathering fruit, and those harvesting grapes, when there is no grape cluster to eat, and no fresh figs that my stomach craves.

  • Ezek 7:11
    72%

    11Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left– not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Isa 59:4
    72%

    4No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.

  • Prov 1:11
    71%

    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Prov 12:6-7
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    71%

    6The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

    7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

  • Ps 12:1
    71%

    1For the music director; according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. Deliver, LORD! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.

  • Hos 4:2-3
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    2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

    3Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

  • Job 4:7
    71%

    7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Prov 28:17
    70%

    17The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Prov 29:6
    70%

    6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

  • Hab 1:4
    70%

    4For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 28:28
    70%

    28When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

  • Ps 140:11
    70%

    11A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

  • Ps 36:3
    70%

    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Ps 94:21
    70%

    21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

  • Prov 11:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be ensnared by their own desires.

    7When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and hope based on power has perished.

  • Jer 9:4
    69%

    4Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

  • Ps 12:8
    69%

    8for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

  • Prov 2:22
    69%

    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Ps 34:21
    69%

    21Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.