Micah 2:1

Woe is pronounced on those who lie awake plotting evil and carry it out as soon as they can. It condemns premeditated, power-abusing wickedness.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
• Isa 32:7The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
• Ps 7:14–16Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
• Hos 7:6–7For 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.
• Nah 1:11From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
• Prov 6:12–19A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
• Rom 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
• Prov 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
• Jer 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
• Prov 3:27Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
• Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
• John 19:11Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
• Isa 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• Luke 22:2–6and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.
• Deut 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
• Gen 31:29I 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 Jacob, either good or bad.’
• Luke 20:19When the scribes and chief priests realized that Jesus had spoken this parable against them, they sought to arrest Him that very hour. But they were afraid of the people.
• Prov 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
• Ps 140:1–8For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
• Acts 23:15Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
• Mark 15:1Early in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin devised a plan. They bound Jesus, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate.
• Matt 27:1–2When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
• Esth 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Ezek 11:2And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.
• Esth 3:8Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
• Esth 5:14His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

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