Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible



Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.

He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

He that imagineth mischief, may well be called an ungracious person.

But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'



They that imagine wickedness, shall be disappointed; but they that muse upon good things, unto such shall happen mercy and faithfulness.

He that winketh with his eyes, imagineth mischief; and he that biteth his lips, will do some harm.

These are the perilous weapons of the covetous, these be his shameful counsels: that he may beguile the poor with deceitful works, yea, even there as he should give sentence with the poor.

Then said the LORD unto me, "Thou son of man: these men imagine mischief, and a wicked counsel take they in this city,




Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers fashion themselves as though they were the ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their deeds.


For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them which believe not the gospel of God?

As for the transgressors, they shall perish together; and the ungodly shall be rooted out at the last.

What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death.

but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.

until I went into the Sanctuary of God. Then understood I the end of these men.



And be ye not like your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the LORD of your fathers, which therefore gave them up that they are wasted, as ye see.

Behold, Your habitation shall be left unto you desolate.


And she said, "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson." And he awoke out of his sleep and thought to go out as at other times before and shake himself, and knew not that the LORD was departed from him.

And Saul asked counsel of the LORD, but the LORD answered him not: neither by dream, nor by the light, nor yet by prophets.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.


Then God turned himself, and gave them up, that they should worship the stars of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'O ye of the house of Israel: gave ye to me sacrifices and meat offerings by the space of forty years in the wilderness?




They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.

The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. As for the dregs thereof, all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out.

But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him; he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, and the desire of the ungodly shall perish.

that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.


Suffer yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone; thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be away.



Therefore they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how should they be ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame nor good nurture? And therefore they shall fall among the slain; and in the hour when I shall visit them, they shall be brought down," sayeth the LORD.

yea even they that swear in the offense of Samaria, and say, 'As truly as thy God liveth at Dan, and as truly as thy God liveth at Beersheba' These shall fall, and never rise up again."

The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.

But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

I will not punish your daughters for being defiled, and your brides that became whores: seeing the fathers themselves have meddled with harlots, and offered with unthriftiness: but the people that will not understand must be punished.

"This shalt thou say unto them also: Thus sayeth the LORD, Do men fall also, that they arise not up again? And turn they so far away, that they never convert?


For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets:


I have determined to scatter them throughout the world, and to make away the remembrance of them from among men,

Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

For he cometh to naught, and goeth his way into darkness, and his name is forgotten.



A good man is acceptable unto the LORD; but the wicked will he condemn.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.

and how Esther went and spake to the king, that through letters his wicked device - which he imagined against the Jews - might be turned upon his own head, and how he and his sons were hanged on the tree.

Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand;



For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.


Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.