Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

New American Standard Bible

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.

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.

Holman Bible

Woe to those who dream up wickedness
and prepare evil plans on their beds!
At morning light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.

International Standard Version

"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

A Conservative Version

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

American Standard 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.

Amplified

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who devise wickedness
And plot evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they practice evil
Because it is in the power of their hands.

Bible in Basic English

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand.

King James 2000

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Modern King James verseion

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.

NET Bible

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds, - in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

Webster

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

World English Bible

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Woe
הוי 
Howy 
woe, Ah, Ho, O, Alas
Usage: 50

and work
פּעל 
Pa`al 
Usage: 57

משׁכּב 
Mishkab 
Usage: 46

בּקר 
Boqer 
Usage: 214

is light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

it, because it is
ישׁ 
Yesh 
is, be, have, there,
Usage: 135

in the power
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

References

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Woe To The Oppressors Of God's People

1 Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God. 2 And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.


Cross References

Psalm 36:4

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Genesis 31:29

my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me, saying, Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!

Proverbs 3:27

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand is toward God to do it.

Isaiah 32:7

And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

Hosea 7:6-7

For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.

Nahum 1:11

From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.

Esther 3:8

And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, 'There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy 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 suffer them;

Esther 5:14

And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, 'Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.

Esther 9:25

and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

Psalm 7:14-16

Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

Psalm 140:1-8

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.

Proverbs 6:12-19

A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

Proverbs 12:2

The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

Ezekiel 11:2

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

Matthew 27:1-2

And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

Mark 15:1

And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests having made a consultation, with the elders, and scribes, and the whole sanhedrim, having bound Jesus, did lead away, and delivered him to Pilate;

Luke 20:19

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

Luke 22:2-6

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, 'Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

Acts 23:12

And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

Acts 23:15

now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

Romans 1:30

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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