Micah 2:1

Woe to those who lie awake planning evil, who in the light of morning carry out their plan because they have the power to do it.

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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

2They covet fields and seize them, desire houses and take them, they crush householder and his household, people and their possessions.

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Cross References

Esther 3:8So Haman said to King Ahasuerus, ‘There is a certain people scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, whose laws differ from those of every other and who do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not right for the king to tolerate them.

Esther 9:25But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalms 7:14The enemy who conceives evil; pregnant with mischief, giving birth to lies,

Psalms 36:5Your love, O Lord, touches the heavens, your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

Psalms 140:1Rescue me, Lord, from evil people; from the violent guard 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 →

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