Micah 2:1

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Summary

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.

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Psalm 36:4

Proverbs 4:16

Because

General references

Proverbs 4:16

Ezekiel 11:2

Mark 7:20

Bible References

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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;

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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;

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

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.

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

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;

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

Work

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

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

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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.

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!

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

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.'

General references

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

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;

And he said -- 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;