Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Lest they exalt themselves

Bible References

Grant not

Psalm 27:12
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't 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 wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"