Micah 7:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
  • Prov 4:16-17 : 16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble. 17 For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
  • Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
  • Hos 4:18 : 18 Sour `is' their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'
  • Jer 3:5 : 5 Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.
  • 1 Kgs 21:9-9 : 9 and she writeth in the letters, saying, `Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people, 10 and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.' 11 And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, 12 they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, 13 and two men -- sons of worthlessness -- come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth; 14 and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead.'
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 `What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,
  • Luke 12:1-2 : 1 At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; 2 and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

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    10In whose hand `is' a wicked device, And their right hand `is' full of bribes.

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    10Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

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    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

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    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

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    3Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

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    21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

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    4Their best one `is' as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity.

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    9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

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    32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.