Micah 2:1

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Psalm 36:4

He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Isaiah 32:7

As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Nahum 1:11

From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord, a worthless counselor.

Romans 1:30

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

Isaiah 59:3

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

Proverbs 4:16

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

Proverbs 3:27

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

Genesis 31:29

It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Acts 23:12

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

John 19:11

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Proverbs 12:2

A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

Luke 20:19

The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

Mark 15:1

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

Ezekiel 11:2

And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Esther 9:25

But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

Esther 3:8

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed 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 to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,

Ezekiel 33:26

You rely on the sword, 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 property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

1 Kings 21:7

And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”

Psalm 36:5

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

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter 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 5:8

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