Thematic Bible: Devices, evil


Thematic Bible




He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

One who plans to do evil,
Men will call a schemer.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’



Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He devises wicked schemes
To destroy the afflicted with slander,
Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city,



A good man will obtain favor from the Lord,
But He will condemn a man who devises evil.

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

But when it came to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.