Micah 2:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Woe to those who dream up wickedness and prepare evil plans  on their beds! At morning light  they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Cross References

Isaiah 32:7

The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies, even when the poor person says what is right.

Nahum 1:11

One has gone out from you, who plots evil against the Lord, and is a wicked counsellor.

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful,  inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Jeremiah 18:18

Then certain ones said, ‘Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah,  for instruction will never be lost from the priest,  or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet.  Come, let’s denounce him  and pay no attention to all his words.’

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice.

Proverbs 4:16

For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Proverbs 3:27

When it is in your power, don’t withhold good  from the one to whom it belongs.

Genesis 31:29

I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, “Watch yourself! Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Acts 23:12

When it was morning, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

John 19:11

‘You would have no authority over me at all,’ Jesus answered him, ‘if it hadn’t been given to you from above. This is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.’

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

Acts 23:15

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you  as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.’

Proverbs 12:2

One who is good obtains favour from the  Lord, but he condemns a person who schemes.

Luke 20:19

Then the scribes and the chief priests  looked for a way to get their hands on him  that very hour, because they knew he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

Mark 15:1

As  soon as it was morning, having held a meeting with the elders,  scribes,  and the whole Sanhedrin, the chief priests  tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

Ezekiel 11:2

The Lord   said to me, ‘Son of man, these are the men who plot evil  and give wicked advice in this city.

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king,  he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head  and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Esther 5:14

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, ‘Have them build a gallows twenty-three metres  tall.  Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.’ The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Esther 3:8

Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, ‘There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,  keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.  It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief.

Proverbs 14:22

Don’t those who plan evil go astray? But those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless one will vanish, the scorner will disappear, and all those who lie in wait with evil intent will be killed –

Ezekiel 33:26

You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbour’s wife. Should you then receive possession of the land? ”

Ezekiel 38:10

‘ “This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 46:18

The prince must not take any of the people’s inheritance, evicting them from their property.  He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of my people will be displaced from his own property.’

Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident foreigner or the poor,  and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.”

1 Kings 21:7

Then his wife Jezebel said to him, ‘Now, exercise your royal power over Israel. Get up, eat some food, and be happy. For I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.’

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble  and give birth to evil; their womb  prepares deception.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: ‘You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land.