Micah 2:1

Micah announced that those who lay awake at night plotting evil that they put into practice the next day would experience woe. Woe announces punishment coming because of guilt (cf. Isaiah 3:9; Isaiah 3:11; Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 13:3; Ezekiel 13:18; Hosea 7:13; Amos 5:18; Habakkuk 2:6; Zephaniah 2:5). The people in view seem to be the rich because they had the ability to carry out their schemes. In times of affluence and peace, the rich and the poor in society normally become richer and poorer, and this was true in Israel and Judah in the late eighth century B.C.

"This expectation of divine help and justice at morning (also in 2 Samuel 15:2; Job 7:18; Psalms 37:6; Psalms 73:14; Psalms 90:14; Psalms 143:8; Jeremiah 21; Jeremiah 12; Hosea 6:3; Hosea 6:5; Zephaniah 3:5) probably had to do in part with the king’s practice of administering justice in the morning . . ." [Note: Waltke, in The Minor . . ., p. 636.]