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 apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

If one is going with the wind, And with falsehood hath lied: 'I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people!

On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

Then one of the twelve, who is called Judas Iscariot, having gone unto the chief priests, said,

Deviseth

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him,

Lying

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

then they suborned men, saying -- 'We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

General references

Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.