Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
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Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
Esther 3:8And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
Esther 9:25But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.
Psalms 7:14\7:13\He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
Psalms 36:5\36:4\He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
Psalms 140:1To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.
Matthew Henry on Micah 2:1
In this chapter we have, I. The sins with which the people of Israel are charged—covetousness and oppression, fraudulent and violent practices ( ver. 1, 2 ), dealing barbarously, even with women and children, and other harmless people, ver. 8, 9 . Opposition of God's prophets and silencing them ( ver. 6, 7 ), and delighting in false prophets, ver. 11 . II. The judgments with which they are threatened for those sins, that they should be humbled, and impoverished ( ver. 3-5 ), and banished, ver. 10 . III. Gracious… Read the whole commentary →