Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(A)
They pursue evil schemes;(B)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(C)

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(A)Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed (B)innocent blood;
(C)Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and (D)destruction are in their paths.

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The faithful have been swept from the land;(A)
    not one(B) upright person remains.
Everyone lies in wait(C) to shed blood;(D)
    they hunt each other(E) with nets.(F)

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The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:2 Or loyal

Woe to Nineveh

Woe to the city of blood,(A)
    full of lies,(B)
full of plunder,
    never without victims!

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The Woe of Nineveh

Woe to the (A)bloody city!
It is all full of lies and robbery.
Its [a]victim never departs.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:1 Lit. prey

12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed(A)
    and establishes a town by injustice!

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12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!

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