Micah 2:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.

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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.

Micah 2:1 Cross References

Genesis 31:29

“It is in the power of my hand to do evil to you, but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Yaʽ

1 Kings 21:7

So Izeḇ

Esther 3:8

Haman then told Sovereign Aḥ

Esther 5:14

So his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a stake be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordeḵ

Esther 9:25

But when she came before the sovereign, he commanded by letter that his evil plot which Haman had plotted against the Yehuḏ

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness, even their womb prepares deception.”

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at daylight, he slays the poor and needy, and in the night he is as a thief.

Psalm 36:4

He plots wickedness on his bed; He sets himself in a way that is not good; He does not despise evil.

Psalm 36:5

O יהוה, Your kindness is in the heavens, And Your trustworthiness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 58:3

The wrong have been estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Proverbs 12:2

The good obtains favour from יהוה, But the man of wicked devices He declares wrong.

Proverbs 14:22

Do not those who plan evil go astray? But kindness and truth are to those who plan good.

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, When it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless one is brought to naught, the scorner is consumed, and all who watch for evil shall be cut off,

Isaiah 3:14

יהוה  enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 32:7

And the methods of the scoundrel are evil – he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling.

Isaiah 5:8

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

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands have been defiled with blood, and your fingers with crookedness; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.”

Ezekiel 11:2

And He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot wickedness and give evil counsel in this city,

Ezekiel 33:26

“You depend on your sword, and you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbour’s wife. Should you then possess the land?” ’

Ezekiel 38:10

‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “And it shall be in that day that words arise in your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan:

Ezekiel 46:18

“And the prince does not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their possession. He is to give his sons their inheritance from his own possession, so that none of My people are separated from his possession.” ’ ”

Micah 6:12

“For her rich men are filled with cruel unrighteousness, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.

Nahum 1:11

From you came forth one who plots evil against יהוה, a counsellor of Beliyaʽ

Zechariah 7:10

“Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

Mark 15:1

And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests had a council meeting with the elders and scribes and all the council. Having bound יהושע, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate.

Luke 20:19

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him in the same hour, but they feared the people, for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them.

John 19:11

יהושע  answered, “You would possess no authority against Me if it were not given you from above. Because of this, he who delivered Me to you has greater sin.”

Acts 23:12

And when it became day, some of the Yehuḏ

Acts 23:15

“Now, then, you, with the council, inform the commander to have him brought down to you tomorrow, as intending to examine more exactly all about him. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Romans 1:30

slanderers, haters of Elohim, insolent, proud, boasters, devisers of evils, disobedient to parents,

Deuteronomy 28:32

“Your sons and your daughters are given to another people, and your eyes look and fail for them all day long, and your hand powerless.