Micah 2:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

²⁹ It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

³² Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

⁸ And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

¹⁴ Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.

²⁵ But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

¹⁴ That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit. ¹⁵ He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made ¹⁶ His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man: ² For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war. ³ Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall. ⁵ The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. Selah. ⁶ I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer. ⁷ O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight. ⁸ O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. Selah.

²⁷ Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

¹² A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; ¹³ Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers; ¹⁴ His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts. ¹⁵ For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him. ¹⁶ Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him: ¹⁷ Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause; ¹⁸ A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; ¹⁹ A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

² A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

⁷ The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

³ For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

² Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

⁶ For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

¹¹ One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

¹ Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death. ² And they put cords on him and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate, the ruler.

¹ And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.

² And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people. ³ And Satan came into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve. ⁴ And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them. ⁵ And they were glad, and undertook to give him money. ⁶ And he made an agreement with them to give him up to them, if he got a chance, when the people were not present.

¹¹ Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

¹⁵ So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.

³⁰ Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,