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.

Cross References (26)

  • Isaiah 32:7 (15)

    The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the

  • Psalms 36:4 (15)

    Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

  • Psalms 7:14–16 (10)

    Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

  • Hosea 7:6–7 (10)

    For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blaz

  • Nahum 1:11 (9)

    From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

  • Proverbs 6:12–19 (9)

    A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

  • Romans 1:30 (8)

    slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

  • Jeremiah 18:18 (7)

    Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to

  • Proverbs 4:16 (7)

    For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

  • Proverbs 3:27 (7)

    Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

  • Acts 23:12 (6)

    When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had ki

  • Genesis 31:29 (6)

    I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to

  • Isaiah 59:3 (6)

    For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte

  • John 19:11 (6)

    Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who hande

  • Luke 22:2–6 (6)

    and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death, for they feared the people.

  • Deuteronomy 28:32 (6)

    Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with

  • Proverbs 12:2 (4)

    The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

  • Psalms 140:1–8 (4)

    For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

  • Luke 20:19 (4)

    When the scribes and chief priests realized that Jesus had spoken this parable against them, they sought to arrest Him t

  • Esther 3:8 (3)

    Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province

  • Esther 5:14 (3)

    His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morn

  • Acts 23:15 (3)

    Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case mor

  • Mark 15:1 (3)

    Early in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin devised a plan. They bound Jesus, led

  • Ezekiel 11:2 (3)

    And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

  • Matthew 27:1–2 (3)

    When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.

  • Esther 9:25 (3)

    But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews