Micah 2:1
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.
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Deuteronomy 28:32May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.
Esther 3:8And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered through all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from another, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the king's ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity.
Esther 9:25And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavours might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.
Psalms 7:14And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.
Psalms 36:5He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good : but evil he hath not hated.
Psalms 140:1Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
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 →