Micah 2:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WOE TO those who devise iniquity and work out evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they perform and practice it because it is in their power.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Common English Bible

¹ Doom to those who devise wickedness, to those who plan evil when they are in bed. By the light of morning they do it, for they are very powerful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Woe to you who devise useless things and who work evil in your beds. In the morning light, they undertake it, because their hand is against God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

Micah 2:1 Cross References

Genesis 31:29

It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’

1 Kings 21:7

His wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

Esther 3:8

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not appropriate for the king to tolerate them.

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a pole fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hung on it; then go with the king to the banquet in good spirits.” This advice pleased Haman, and he had the pole made.

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.”

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy and in the night is like a thief.

Psalm 36:4

They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.

Psalm 36:5

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies.

Proverbs 12:2

The good obtain favor from the Lord, but those who devise evil he condemns.

Proverbs 14:22

Do not those who plan evil err? Those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Isaiah 29:20

For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 32:7

The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Ezekiel 11:2

He said to me, “Mortal, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Ezekiel 33:26

You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 38:10

Thus says the Lord God: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme.

Ezekiel 46:18

The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their holding; he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own holding, so that none of my people shall be dispossessed of their holding.”

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Nahum 1:11

From you one has gone out who plots evil against the Lord, one who counsels wickedness.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

Mark 15:1

As soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

Luke 20:19

When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.

John 19:11

Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

Acts 23:12

In the morning the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:15

Now then, you and the council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you, on the pretext that you want to make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready to do away with him before he arrives.”

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.