Micah 2:1

Legacy Standard Bible

Woe to those who devise wickedness, Who work out evil on their beds! When the light of the morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands.

Cross References

Genesis 31:29

It is in my hand to do evil against you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Beware of speaking either good or evil to Jacob.’

1 Kings 21:7

And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now exercise kingship over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be merry; 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 all other people, and they do not do the king’s laws, so it is not worth it for the king to let them remain.

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it; then go gladly with the king to the feast.” And the word was good to Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Esther 9:25

But when it came before the king, he said by letter that his evil scheme, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Job 15:35

“They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness, And their belly prepares deception.”

Job 24:14

“The murderer arises at dawn; He kills the afflicted and the needy, And at night he is as a thief.

Psalm 36:4

He devises wickedness upon his bed; He sets himself on a path that is not good; He does not despise evil.

Psalm 36:5

¶Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, is in the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak falsehood wander in error from birth.

Proverbs 12:2

A good man will obtain favor from Yahweh, But a man of evil schemes He will condemn.

Proverbs 14:22

Will they not wander in error who devise evil? But lovingkindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

Proverbs 3:27

¶Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your hand to do it.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless will come to an end and the scoffer will be finished, Indeed all who are watching out to do evil will be cut off;

Isaiah 3:14

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes, “It is you who have consumed the vineyard; The plunder robbed of the afflicted is in your houses.

Isaiah 32:7

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He counsels wicked schemes To wreak destruction on the afflicted with lying words, Even though the needy one speaks justly.

Isaiah 5:8

¶Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have 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 a lie; Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to perish from the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Ezekiel 11:2

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

Ezekiel 33:26

You stand on account of your sword, you do abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?” ’

Ezekiel 38:10

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “It will be in that day, that thoughts will come into your heart, and you will devise an evil plan,

Ezekiel 46:18

Now the prince shall not take from the people’s inheritance, mistreating them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession.” ’ ”

Micah 6:12

“For the rich men of the city are full of violence, And her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Nahum 1:11

From you has gone forth One who devised evil against Yahweh, A vile counselor.

Zechariah 7:10

and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the sojourner or the afflicted; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’

Mark 15:1

And early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin, immediately held council; and binding Jesus, led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.

Luke 20:19

And the scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people. For they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

Acts 23:12

Now when it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:15

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more carefully; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near.”

Romans 1:30

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

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them all the day long; but there will be nothing you can do.