Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
Grant not
Lest they exalt themselves
Bible References
Grant not
Psalm 27:12
Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For FALSE witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute?
2 Samuel 15:31
And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Lest they exalt themselves
Deuteronomy 32:27
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, and LORD has not done all this.