Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible




Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.



Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,

Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;




no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.


because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?


what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning;

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.



and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

Lo, left desolate to you is your house;


and she saith, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him.

and Saul asketh at Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not answered him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.


and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?




wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!


And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.



They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.

Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?


And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.

His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.


I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,



The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.



For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.


Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways.