Micah 2:1

Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, as soon as you are able to do them.

Translation for Translators

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

2You want fields that belong to other people, so you seize them; you also take their houses. You cheat people to get their homes, taking away the property that belongs to their families.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:32While you watch, your sons and daughters will be given to foreigners to become their slaves. Every day you will very sadly watch for your children to return, but ◄you will watch in vain/they will never return►.

Esther 3:8Then Haman went to the king and said to him, “ Your majesty, there is a certain group of people who live in many areas of your empire whose customs are different from ours. They even refuse to obey your laws. So it would be good for you to get rid of them.

Esther 9:25They would remember that when Esther told the king about Haman’s plan, the king arranged that the evil plan that Haman had made to kill the Jews would fail, and that he would be killed instead of the Jews, and that Haman and that his sons were hanged.

Psalms 7:14Wicked people tell lies, and they think that they surely will be able to do [MET] the evil things that they are planning to do just as surely as a pregnant woman knows that she is going to give birth to a child [MET].

Psalms 36:5Yahweh, your faithful love for us reaches as high as the heavens, you faithfully do what you have promised; it is as though your doing that extends up to the clouds.

Psalms 140:1Yahweh, rescue/save me from being attacked by evil men; and even more, ◄keep me safe/protect me► from being attacked by violent people.

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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