Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
3 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- Woe [to] those devising iniquity and working evil on their beds. In the light of morning they do it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- ÅB
- Ve dem som tenker ut urett
og legger planer om ondt mens de ligger i sengen!
Når det lysner av dag, setter de det i verk,
fordi de har makt til det. - OTB
- Ve dem som planlegger ugjerninger,
Som pønsker på ondt mens de ligger i sengen!
Når morgenen kommer, setter de det i verk,
Fordi de har makt til det. - B1930
- Ve dem som tenker ut urett og emner på ondt mens de ligger på sitt leie! Så snart morgenen gryr, setter de det i verk, fordi det står i deres makt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 36:4
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:7
The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
Read in contextPsalms 7:14–16
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Read in contextHosea 7:6–7
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Read in contextProverbs 6:12–19
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Read in contextNahum 1:11
From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
Read in contextRomans 1:30
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Read in contextProverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
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