It is in the power of my hand to hurt y’all, but the God of y’all’s father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Micah 2:1 - Y'all Version Bible Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. |
It is in the power of my hand to hurt y’all, but the God of y’all’s father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Get up, eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among 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.
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.
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.
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himsefl in a way that is not good. Hᴇ doesn’t abhor evil.
Your lovingkindness, YHWH, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
A good person will obtain favor from YHWH, but ʜᴇ will condemn a person who makes wicked plans.
Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
YHWH enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of ʜɪꜱ people: “Y’all have ruined the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in y’all’s houses.
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Woe to those who add house to house, and join field to field, until there is no more room, so that y’all dwell alone in the middle of the land!
For y’all’s hands are defiled with blood, and y’all’s fingers with iniquity. Y’all’s lips have spoken lies. Y’all’s tongue mutters wickedness.
Then they said, “Come, y’all! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah, for the law won’t be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, y’all, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
He said to me, “Son of humanity, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
Y’all rely on your* sword, y’all commit abominations, and every one of y’all defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should y’all possess the land?”’
“‘Lord YHWH says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Moreover the prince must not take from the people’s inheritance, evicting them from their property. He is to give inheritance to his sons from of his own possession, so that my people will not be scattered from their property.”’”
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
One has gone out of you who devises evil against YHWH, who counsels wickedness.
Y’all must not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, or the poor. And don’t plan evil in y’all’s heart against anyone.’
Early in the morning the chief priests, along with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation. They bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
The scribes and chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they feared the people.
Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me unless it were given to you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
When morning came, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath, saying that they would not eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
So now, y’all and the Council make a request to the commander to bring Paul down to y’all tomorrow, as though y’all intended to conduct a more thorough investigation. But before he arrives, we are ready to kill him.”
slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, innovators of evil, disobedient to parents,
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.