Micah 6:12 (YLT)

Passage

Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue <FI>is<Fi> deceitful in their mouth.

Nearby Context

Micah 6:10 Are there yet <FI>in<Fi> the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

Micah 6:11 Do I reckon <FI>it<Fi> pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

Micah 6:12 Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue <FI>is<Fi> deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 6:13 And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

Micah 6:14 Thou--thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "whose", "rich", "ones", "been", "full", "violence", "inhabitants", and "spoken". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "whose" and "rich", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Do I reckon FI it Fi pure..." into verse 13's "And I also I have begun to...", so "whose" and "rich" belong inside that flow. In Micah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "whose" and "rich" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.