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
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
Psalm 94:20
Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
2 Samuel 15:31
And it was told David, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Lest they exalt themselves
Deuteronomy 32:27
had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this."'