18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices

For they have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.

Be resigned to Yahweh, yea wait with longing for him; Burn not with vexation at him who prospereth in his way, - at the man who doeth wickedness.

Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the lawless one, his device, do not promote, They would exalt themselves. Selah.

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!

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

Hath perverse things in his heart, deviseth mischief on every occasion, strifes, he sendeth forth.

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.

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

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;

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.

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;

In the pride of the lawless one, he hotly pursueth the poor, let them be caught in the plots which they have devised!

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

A heart contriving iniquitous devices, feet hasting to run into mischief;

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