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What does Micah 6:12 mean?
"Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech."
— Micah 6:12 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
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