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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.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

Esther 3:8And he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from those of all the other nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone.

Esther 9:25also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

Psalms 7:14Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity. 1

Psalms 36:5Disclose your way to the Lord, and hope in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 1

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

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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