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Character » Of the wicked » Conspiring against saints
So they all conspired together to invade and fight against Jerusalem, creating confusion there.
Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying "Come, let's meet together at Kephirim on the Ono Plain." But they were just trying to do me harm.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
Character of the wicked » Conspiring against God's people
So they all conspired together to invade and fight against Jerusalem, creating confusion there.
Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying "Come, let's meet together at Kephirim on the Ono Plain." But they were just trying to do me harm.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
Deceit » The wicked » Devise
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land.
Deceit » Devise
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land.
Evil » The whole » Imagination
a heart crafting evil plans, feet running swiftly to wickedness,
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings even though human inclinations remain evil from youth nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
the Spirit asked me, "Do you see, Son of Man, what the elders of Israel's house are doing in secret, each in the chamber of his own carved idol? They keep saying, "God doesn't see us. The LORD has abandoned the land.'"
The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.
Verse Concepts
The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them!
Then, when many evils and troubles will have come upon them, this song will serve as a witness against them, since their descendants won't fail to sing it. I know the plan that they are devising even before I bring them into the land that I promised them by an oath."
They keep on saying to those who despise me, "The LORD has said, "You will have peace."' To all who stubbornly follow their own desires they say, "Disaster won't come upon you.'
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Slander » Saints exposed to
They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.