Thematic Bible
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Character » Of the wicked » Conspiring against saints
So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me.
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
Character of the wicked » Conspiring against God's people
So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me.
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
Deceit » The wicked » Devise
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.
Deceit » Devise
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.
Evil » The whole » Imagination
a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,
And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done.
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel [are] doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for [they are] saying, 'Yahweh [is] not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"
And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.
Verse Concepts
And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
{And then} many disasters and troubles will come upon them, and this song will give evidence before them as a witness, because it will not be forgotten from [out of] the mouth of their descendants, for I know their inclination that they [are] having {today} before I have brought them into the land that I swore."
[They are] continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, 'Peace it will be to you,' and [to] {each one} who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.'
For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Slander » Saints exposed to
with respect to which they are surprised [when] you do not run with [them] into the same flood of dissipation, [and so they] revile [you].
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.