Psalm 36:4

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Summary

Psalm 36:4

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Deviseth

Setteth

Abhorreth

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Bible References

Deviseth

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If you save not your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be slain.

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak you unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Setteth

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Thus says the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.

I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented himself of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his own course, as the horse rushes into the battle.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Abhorreth

You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you can not bear them who are evil: and you have tried them who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars:

General references

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city: