Micah 2:1

Sin and its corresponding Punishment

1. and work evil To -work," as distinguished from -devise" and to -practise" or -execute," is to prepare ways and means (see Isaiah 41:4). Obs., it is no mere act of thoughtlessness, or passionate impulse, which is here denounced, but a set purpose of dispossessing the small proprietors.

upon their beds The natural place for reflexion, whether in a bad sense (as here and Psalms 36:4), or in a good (as Psalms 63:6).

it is in the power of their hand A doubt as to the meaning has arisen from the fact that the word elhere rendered -power" is more commonly used for -god." But Lagarde has shewn that the root meaning of elis -that to which one reaches out." Comp. Acts 17:27.