Thematic Bible: Devices, evil


Thematic Bible



Woe to those who dream up wickedness
and prepare evil plans on their beds!
At morning light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

The one who plots evil
will be called a schemer.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”



Don’t those who plan evil go astray?
But those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.

The one who narrows his eyes is planning deceptions;
the one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive;
he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies,
even when the poor says what is right.

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give wicked advice in this city.



The good person obtains favor from the Lord,
but He condemns a man who schemes.

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.



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