Destruction of the Wicked

Micah 6

9 The LORD's voice cries to the city -
Wisdom shall see Your name:
"Hear the rod!
Who has appointed it? 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And the short measure that is an abomination? 11 Shall I count pure those with n the wicked scales,
And with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For her rich men are full of o violence,
Her inhabitants have spoken lies,
And p their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 "Therefore I will also q make you sick by striking you,
By making you desolate because of your sins. 14 r You shall eat, but not be satisfied;
1 Hunger shall be in your midst.
2 You may carry some away, but shall not save them;
And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword. 15 "You shall s sow, but not reap;
You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
And make sweet wine, but not drink wine. 16 For the statutes of t Omri are u kept;
All the works of Ahab's house are done;
And you walk in their counsels,
That I may make you a 3 desolation,
And your inhabitants a hissing.
Therefore you shall bear the v reproach of 4 My people."

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:36
    You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
    Hosea 12:7
    A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:23
    Your princes are rebellious, And companions of ...
    Isaiah 5:7
    For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the ho...
    Amos 6:3
    Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who...
    Amos 6:4
    Who lie on beds of ivory, Stretch out on your c...
    Micah 2:1
    Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out ...
    Micah 2:2
    They covet fields and take them by violence, Al...
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:2 - 6
    Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.
    Jeremiah 9:8
    Their tongue is an arrow shot out; It speaks deceit; One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, But in his heart he lies in wait.
    Hosea 7:13
    Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
    Amos 2:4
    Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, Lies which their fathers followed.
  4. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:16
    I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
    Psalms 107:17
    Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
  5. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:26
    When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:38 - 40
    You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
    Amos 5:11
    Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.
    Zephaniah 1:13
    Therefore their goods shall become booty, And their houses a desolation; They shall build houses, but not inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.
    Haggai 1:6
    "You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes."
  7. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:25
    Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all who were before him.
    1 Kings 16:26
    For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:30
    Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
    1 Kings 21:25
    But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.
    1 Kings 21:26
    And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
    2 Kings 21:3
    For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
    Hosea 5:11
    Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by human precept.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:8
    He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.
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