Thematic Bible: Devices


Thematic Bible



Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds, - in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

Iniquity, deviseth he upon his bed, - he taketh his stand in a way, not good, Wrong, doth he not abhor!

He that deviseth to do mischief, him, shall men call, a master of plots.

And, since they will say, Hopeless! For after our own devices, will we walk, And, very one, the stubbornness of his own wicked heart, will we do!



Shall they not, become vagrants, who devise evil? but, lovingkindness and faithfulness, be to them who devise good.

Closing his eyes, to devise perverse things, biting his lips, he hath plotted mischief.

Yea, a knave, his weapons are wicked, - He, base schemes, hath devised To ruin the oppressed with speeches of falsehood Even when the needy pleadeth, for justice.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, These, are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are counselling wicked counsel in this city;



A good man, obtaineth favour from Yahweh, but, a man of wicked devices, will he condemn.

Yahweh, hath frustrated the counsel of nations, hath brought to nothing the devices of peoples.

but, by Esther's going in before the king, he commanded by letter, that his wicked plot which he had plotted against the Jews, should return, upon his own head, - and that he and his sons should be hanged upon the gallows.

Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;