Psalm 36:4

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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

General references

Bible References

Deviseth

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

For they have prepared 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 those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Setteth

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

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

Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

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

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Abhorreth

You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

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

"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

General references

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;