Isaiah 32:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Instruments

Deviseth

Lying

Isaiah 59:3

1 Kings 21:10

Acts 6:11

General references

Proverbs 24:8

Bible References

Instruments

Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.

These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.

For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.

If I were a fleshly fellow, and a preacher of lies, and told them that they might sit bibbing and bolling, and be drunken: O that were a Prophet for this people!

yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

Deviseth

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow.

That they may privily hurt the innocent, and suddenly hit him without any fear.

How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death:

and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

Lying

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness; Your lips speak lies, and your tongue setteth out wickedness.

and set two unthrifties before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'Thou didst curse both God and the king.' And upon that carry him out and stone him to death."

Then sent they in men which said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God,"

General references

He that imagineth mischief, may well be called an ungracious person.