Thematic Bible: Evil people


Thematic Bible



who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
Why did the Gentiles rage,
And the peoples devise futile things?


Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?


Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?




And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood;
His heart gathers wickedness to itself;
When he goes outside, he tells it.


“When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry all of them up,
And a breath will take them away.
But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land
And will possess My holy mountain.”

So He brought their days to an end in futility
And their years in sudden terror.


“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have strained themselves to no profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”



“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,


O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and things of no profit.”


An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.


“For He knows false men,
And He sees iniquity without investigating.


For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,


Thus says the Lord,
What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?


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


O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?
How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.