Micah 2:1

They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another nation, and thine eyes wasting away shall look for them: thine hand shall have no strength.

Psalms 7:14And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the + 7:14 See Heb. perhaps 'persecuting ones.'raging ones.

Psalms 36:5Disclose thy way to the Lord, and hope in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalms 140:1A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee.

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 →

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