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Miquéas 2:1
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Ai daqueles que nas suas camas intentam a iniqidade, e maquinam o mal; luz da alva o praticam, porque est no poder da sua mo!
Ai daqueles que, no seu leito, imaginam a iniqidade e maquinam o mal! luz da alva, o praticam, porque o poder est em suas mos.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Cir, am 3274, bc 730
to: Esther 3:8, Esther 5:14, Esther 9:25, Psalms 7:14-16, Psalms 140:1-8, Proverbs 6:12-19, Proverbs 12:2, Isaiah 32:7, Isaiah 59:3, Jeremiah 18:18, Ezekiel 11:2, Nahum 1:11, Luke 20:19, Luke 22:2-6, Acts 23:12, Romans 1:30
work: Psalms 36:4, Proverbs 4:16
when: Hosea 7:6, Hosea 7:7, Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:2, Mark 15:1, Acts 23:15
because: Genesis 31:29, Deuteronomy 28:32, Proverbs 3:27, John 19:11
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:9 - and I have Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Joshua 7:21 - took them Judges 21:25 - right 1 Samuel 2:16 - I will take 1 Kings 21:7 - I will give thee 2 Kings 8:13 - The Lord 2 Kings 8:15 - on the morrow Ezra 4:23 - they went up Nehemiah 5:10 - I likewise Job 24:4 - turn Job 24:5 - rising Job 24:14 - murderer Job 31:21 - when Psalms 17:3 - thou hast Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 37:12 - plotteth Psalms 55:10 - Day Psalms 73:6 - violence Psalms 103:6 - executeth Psalms 140:2 - imagine Proverbs 1:19 - every Proverbs 3:29 - Devise not evil Proverbs 6:14 - he deviseth Proverbs 6:18 - heart Proverbs 10:15 - the destruction Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Isaiah 29:20 - and all Isaiah 32:6 - and his heart Isaiah 59:4 - they conceive Isaiah 59:6 - their works Jeremiah 3:5 - thou hast spoken Jeremiah 4:22 - they are wise Jeremiah 6:7 - violence Jeremiah 6:13 - For Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Ezekiel 22:6 - power Ezekiel 22:13 - thy dishonest Ezekiel 33:26 - stand Ezekiel 38:10 - think an evil thought Ezekiel 45:9 - exactions Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 12:7 - he loveth Amos 4:1 - which oppress Micah 2:3 - do Micah 6:12 - the rich Habakkuk 1:4 - for Zephaniah 3:7 - they Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Zechariah 8:17 - let Mark 7:20 - General John 18:28 - early Acts 4:5 - on James 1:15 - when
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Woe to them that devise iniquity,.... Any kind of iniquity; idolatry, or worshipping of idols, for the word is used sometimes for an idol; or the sin of uncleanness, on which the thoughts too often dwell in the night season; or coveting of neighbours' goods, and oppressing the poor; sins which are instanced in Micah 2:2; and every thing that is vain, foolish, and wicked, and in the issue brings trouble and distress: now a woe is denounced against such that think on such things, and please themselves with them in their imaginations, and contrive ways and means to commit them:
and work evil upon their beds; when, the senses being less engaged, the thoughts are more free; but should not be employed about evil; but either in meditating on the divine goodness, and praising the Lord for his mercies; or in examining a man's heart, state, and case, and mourning over his sins, and applying to God for the remission of them; but, instead of this, the persons here threatened are said to "work evil on their beds", when they should be asleep and at rest, or engaged in the above things; that is, they plot and contrive how to accomplish the evil they meditate; they determine upon doing it, and are as sure of effecting it as if it was actually done; and do act it over in their own minds, as if it was real; see Psalms 36:4;
when the morning is light, they practise it; they wish and wait for the morning light, and as soon as it appears they rise; and, instead of blessing God for the mercies of the night, and going about their lawful business, they endeavour to put in practice with all rigour and diligence, and as expeditiously as they can, what they have projected and schemed in the night season;
because it is in the power of their hand; to commit it; and they have no principle of goodness in them, nor fear of God before them, to restrain them from it: or, "because their hand is unto power" b; it is stretched out, and made use of in the commission of sin to the utmost of their power, without any regard to God or man. The Vulgate Latin version is, "because their hand is against God"; their hearts are enmity to God, and therefore they oppose him with both their hands, and care not what iniquity they commit; they are rebels against him, and will not be subject to him. The Septuagint and Arabic versions are, "because they lift not up their hands to God"; they do not pray to him, and therefore are bold and daring to perpetrate the grossest iniquity, which a praying man dared not do; but the Syriac version is the reverse, "they do lift up their hands to God"; make a show of religion and devotion, when their hearts and their hands are deeply engaged in, sinning; which shows their impudence and hypocrisy; but the passages in
Genesis 31:29 favour and confirm our version, and the sense of it; so the Targum.
b כי יש לאל ידם "quia est ad potentiam manus ipsorum", Calvin.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The prophet had declared that evil should come down on Samaria and Jerusalem for their sins. He had pronounced them sinners against God; he now speaks of their hard unlovingness toward man, as our Blessed Lord in the Gospel speaks of sins against Himself in His members, as the ground of the condemnation of the wicked. The time of warning is past. He speaks as in the person of the Judge, declaring the righteous judgments of God, pronouncing sentence on the hardened, but blessing on those who follow Christ. The sins thus visited were done with a high hand; first, with forethought:
Woe - All woe, woe from God ; “the woe of temporal captivity; and, unless ye repent, the woe of eternal damnation, hangeth over you.” Woe to them that devise iniquity. They devise it , “they are not led into it by others, but invent it out of their own hearts.” They plot and forecast and fulfill it even in thought, before it comes to act. And work evil upon their beds. Thoughts and imaginations of evil are works of the soul Psalms 58:2. “Upon their beds” (see Psalms 36:4), which ought to be the place of holy thought, and of communing with their own hearts and with God Psalms 4:4. Stillness must be filled with thought, good or bad; if not with good, then with bad. The chamber, if not the sanctuary of holy thoughts, is filled with unholy purposes and imaginations. Man’s last and first thoughts, if not of good, are especially of vanity and evil. The Psalmist says, “Lord, have I not remembered Thee in my bed, and thought upon Thee when I was waking?” Psalms 63:6. These men thought of sin on their bed, and did it on waking. When the morning is light, literally in the light of the morning, that is, instantly, shamelessly, not shrinking from the light of day, not ignorantly, but knowingly, deliberately, in full light. Nor again through infirmity, but in the wantonness of might, because it is in the power of their hand , as, of old, God said, “This they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do” Genesis 11:6. Rup.: “Impiously mighty, and mighty in impiety.”
Lap.: See the need of the daily prayer, “Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin;” and “Almighty God, who hast brought us to the beginning of this day, defend us in the same by Thy mighty power, that we may fall into no sin, etc.” The illusions of the night, if such be permitted, have no power against the prayer of the morning.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II
Here the prophet denounces a wo against the plotters of
wickedness, the covetous and the oppressor, 1, 2.
God is represented as devising their ruin, 3.
An Israelite is then introduced as a mourner, personating his
people, and lamenting their fate, 4.
Their total expulsion is now threatened on account of their
very numerous offences, 5-10.
Great infatuation of the people in favour of those pretenders
to Divine inspiration who prophesied to them peace and plenty,
11.
The chapter concludes with a gracious promise of the
restoration of the posterity of Jacob from captivity; possibly
alluding to their deliverance from the Chaldean yoke, an event
which was about two hundred years in futurity at the delivery
of this prophecy, 12, 13.
NOTES ON CHAP. II
Verse Micah 2:1. Wo to them that devise iniquity — Who lay schemes and plans for transgressions; who make it their study to find out new modes of sinning; and make these things their nocturnal meditations, that, having fixed their plan, they may begin to execute it as soon as it is light in the morning.
Because it is in the power of their hand. — They think they may do whatever they have power and opportunity to do.
