Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible




He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

One who plans to do evil,
Men will call a schemer.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’



Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He devises wicked schemes
To destroy the afflicted with slander,
Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city,




Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.


For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;
The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I perceived their end.



Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see.

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!


She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.


But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?


O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.


wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

The wicked will see it and be vexed,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked will perish.

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.


Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;
And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.



“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

“As for those who swear by the guilt of Samaria,
Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’
They will fall and not rise again.”

The righteousness of the blameless will smooth his way,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not repent?


So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out from the holy place, and they are soon forgotten in the city where they did thus. This too is futility.

Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.


‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,
I will remove the memory of them from men,”

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.



A good man will obtain favor from the Lord,
But He will condemn a man who devises evil.

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

But when it came to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.



For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.


Their feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.