Micah 2:1
Woe [to] those devising iniquity, || And working evil on their beds, || In the morning light they do it, || For their hand is—to God.
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Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters [are] given to another people, and your eyes are looking and consumed for them all the day, but your hand is not to God!
Esther 3:8And Haman says to King Ahasuerus, “There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of your kingdom, and their laws [are] diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to permit them;
Esther 9:25and in her coming in before the king, he commanded with the letter, “Let his evil scheme that he devised against the Jews return on his own head,” and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,
Psalms 7:14Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, || And he has conceived perverseness, || And has brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 36:5O YHWH, Your kindness [is] in the heavens, || Your faithfulness [is] to the clouds.
Psalms 140:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. Deliver me, O YHWH, from an evil man, || Keep me from one of violence.
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 →