Micah 2:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 31:29

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

1 Kings 21:7

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

Esther 3:8

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed amongst the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Esther 9:25

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned 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 mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

Psalm 36:4

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Psalm 36:5

Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Proverbs 12:2

A good man shall obtain favour from the LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Proverbs 14:22

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

Proverbs 3:27

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Proverbs 4:16

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Isaiah 3:14

The LORD will enter into judgement with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 32:7

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle 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’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Ezekiel 11:2

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

Ezekiel 33:26

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbour’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’

Ezekiel 38:10

“‘The Lord GOD says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 46:18

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.”’”

Micah 6:12

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Nahum 1:11

One has gone out of you who devises evil against the LORD, who counsels wickedness.

Zechariah 7:10

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Mark 15:1

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Yeshua, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

Luke 20:19

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

John 19:11

Yeshua answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Acts 23:12

When it was day, some of the Judeans banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Romans 1:30

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.