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And plot evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they practice evil
Because it is in the power of their hands.
He plans wrongdoing on his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not reject or despise evil.
He who plans to do evil
Will be called a schemer or deviser of evil.
But they will say, ‘That is hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act in accordance with the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
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Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him;
Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.
Who perversely in his heart plots trouble and evil continually;
Who spreads discord and strife.
Do they not go astray who devise evil and wander from the way of righteousness?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.
He who [slyly] winks his eyes does so to plot perverse things;
And he who compresses his lips [as if in a secret signal] brings evil to pass.
As for the rogue, his weapons are evil;
He conceives wicked plans
To ruin the poor with lies,
Even when the plea of the needy one is just and right.
Then the Spirit said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise evil and give wicked advice in this city,
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The wicked » Devices of » End of
But as for the cowards and unbelieving and abominable [who are devoid of character and personal integrity and practice or tolerate immorality], and murderers, and sorcerers [with intoxicating drugs], and idolaters and occultists [who practice and teach false religions], and all the liars [who knowingly deceive and twist truth], their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
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whose fate is destruction, whose god is their belly [their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity], and whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things.
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So it is no great surprise if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, but their end will correspond with their deeds.
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There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,
But its end is the way of death.
For it is the time [destined] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not respect or believe or obey the gospel of God?
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As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed;
The future of the wicked will be cut off.
So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None!] For the outcome of those things is death!
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but if it persistently produces 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 understood [for I considered] their end.
The wicked » Devices of » Forsaken
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their own hearts to [sexual] impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],
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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 (lifeless, desolate), just as you see.
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Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and terrified him.
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She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as I have time after time and shake myself free.” For Samson did not know that the Lord had departed from him.
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So Saul inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim [used like lots by the priest to determine the will of God] or by prophets.
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“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
“Then they will call upon me (Wisdom), but I will not answer;
They will seek me eagerly but they will not find me,
But God turned away [from them] and handed them over to serve the host of heaven. As it is written and forever remains written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not [really] to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?
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The wicked » Devices of » Fate of
Go away from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
These [false teachers] are springs without water and mists driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the gloom of black darkness.
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wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.
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The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.
For a cup [of His wrath] is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed and fully spiced, and He pours out from it;
And all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink down to its dregs.
But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;
Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.
But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.
The wicked will see it and be angered,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death];
The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.
That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.
For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.
For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
“Were they ashamed because they had committed disgusting and vile things?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
They did not even know how to blush [at their idolatry].
Therefore they will fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them
They will be overthrown,” says the Lord.
“Those who swear [their oaths] by the sin (guilt) of Samaria or Ashimah (a pagan goddess),
Who say, ‘By the life of your god [the golden calf], O Dan!’
And [swear], ‘By the life of the way of [idolatrous] Beersheba,’
They shall fall and not rise again.”
The righteousness of the blameless will smooth their way and keep it straight,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
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I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,
And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].
So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.
“Moreover [Jeremiah], you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not rise up again?
Does one turn away [from God] and not repent and return [to Him]?
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Does one turn away [from God] and not repent and return [to Him]?
The wicked » Devices of » Forgotten
So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness).
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“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name on the street.
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away],
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 the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
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The wicked » Devices of » Will be defeated
A heart that creates wicked plans,
Feet that run swiftly to evil,
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 makes the thoughts and plans of the people ineffective.
But when it came before the king, he commanded in writing that Haman’s wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews was to return on his own head, and that he and his sons should [endure what he planned for the Jews and] be hanged on the gallows.
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“He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.
In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
The wicked » Devices of » Feet of
For their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed blood.
A heart that creates wicked plans,
Feet that run swiftly to evil,
Their feet run to evil,
And they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness [of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing];
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
“Their feet are swift to shed blood,
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