Thematic Bible: Devices
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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.
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.’
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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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.
“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.
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