Micah 2:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Wo vnto them that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it, because their hande hath power.

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  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore.
  • Gen 31:29 : 29 For it is in my hand through God to do you hurt: But the God of your father spake vnto me yesternight, saying: Take heede that thou speake not to Iacob ought saue good.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Thy sonnes and thy daughters shall be geuen vnto another nation, and thine eyes shall see it, and dase vpon them all the day long: and there shalbe no might in thyne hande.
  • Prov 3:27 : 27 Withdraw no good thyng from them that haue nede, so long as thyne hande is able to do it.
  • Hos 7:6-7 : 6 For whyles they lye in wayte, they haue made redye their heart lyke an ouen, their baker sleepeth all night, in the morning it burneth as a flambe of fire. 7 They are altogether as hotte as an ouen, and haue deuoured their owne iudges, all their kinges are fallen, yet is there none of them that calleth vpon me.
  • Nah 1:11 : 11 There came out of thee such as thought euyll against the Lorde, such as gaue wicked counsell.
  • Matt 27:1-2 : 1 When the mornyng was come, all the chiefe priestes, and the elders of the people, helde a councell agaynst Iesus to put hym to death. 2 And brought hym bounde, and deliuered hym to Pontius Pilate the deputie.
  • Mark 15:1 : 1 And anone in the dawnyng, the hye priestes held a councel, with the elders, and the scribes, and the whole congregation, and bound Iesus, and ledde hym away, and deliuered hym to Pilate.
  • Luke 20:19 : 19 And the hye priestes & the scribes, the same houre went about to laye handes on hym: and they feared the people. For they perceaued that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.
  • Luke 22:2-6 : 2 And ye hie priestes and scribes sought howe they myght kyll hym, for they feared the people. 3 Then entred Satan into Iudas, whose sirname was Iscariot, whiche was of the number of the twelue. 4 And he went his waye, and communed with the hye priestes and officers, howe he myght betray him vnto them. 5 And they were glad, and promised to geue him money. 6 And he consented, and sought oportunitie to betray him vnto them, when the people were away.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Iesus aunswered: Thou couldest haue no power at all agaynst me, except it were geuen thee from aboue: Therfore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath the more sinne.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, and made a vowe, saying that they woulde neither eate nor drynke, tyl they had kylled Paul.
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 Nowe therfore geue ye knowledge to the vpper captayne, and to the counsell, that he bryng hym foorth vnto you to morrowe, as though ye woulde knowe somethyng more perfectly of hym: And we, or euer he come neare, are redy to kyll hym.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbyters, haters of God, dispiteful, proude, boasters, bryngers vp of euyll thinges, disobedient to father & mother:
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.
  • Prov 6:12-19 : 12 An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feete, he teacheth with his fingers. 14 He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde. 15 Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed. 16 These sixe thinges doth the Lorde hate, and the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: 17 A proude loke, a lying tongue, handes that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe, 19 A false witnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and hym that soweth discorde among brethren.
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.
  • Esth 3:8 : 8 And Haman sayde vnto king Ahasuerus: There is here a people scattred abrode, and dispearsed among all people in all the prouinces of thyne empire, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and do not after the kinges lawes, therefore it is not the kinges profite to suffer them after this maner.
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 Then saide Zares his wyfe and all his friendes vnto him: Let them make a galous of fiftie cubites hie, and to morowe speake thou vnto the king that Mardocheus may be hanged thereon: then go thou in meryly with the king vnto the banket. And Haman was well content withall, and caused the galous to be made.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when Esther came before the king, he commaunded by letters that his wicked deuice which he imagined against the Iewes, should be turned vpon his owne head, and that he and his sonnes should be hanged on the tree.
  • Ps 7:14-16 : 14 Beholde, he wyll be in trauayle of a mischiefe, for he hath conceaued a labour: but yet he shall be brought to bed of a falsehood. 15 He hath made a graue and digged it: but he hym selfe wyll fall into the pit whiche he hath made. 16 For his labour shall come vpon his owne head: and his wickednesse shall fall vpon his owne pate.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayd they, Come, let vs imagine somethyng agaynst this Ieremie: for the priestes shall not be destitute of the lawe, neither shall the wise men be destitute of counsayle, nor the prophetes destitute of the worde of God: Come, and let vs smite hym with the tongue, and let vs not marke all his wordes.
  • Ezek 11:2 : 2 Then sayde he vnto me, Thou sonne of man, these men imagine mischiefe, & a wicked counsayle take they in this citie,
  • Ps 140:1-8 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid. Delyuer me O God from the euyll man: and preserue me from the outragious man. 2 Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day. 3 They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah. 4 Kepe me O God from the handes of the vngodly: preserue me from the outragious man, who haue deuised to thrust my feete from me. 5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with coardes in the high wayes: they haue set trappes for me. Selah. 6 I haue sayde vnto God, thou art my Lorde: heare the voyce of my prayers O God. 7 O Lorde God the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battayle. 8 Graunt not vnto the vngodly his desires O God: bryng not to passe his mischeuous imagination lest they shoulde be made to proude. Selah.

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