Thematic Bible: Evil people


Thematic Bible



You said by the Holy Spirit through the voice of our ancestor, your servant David, "Why do the unbelievers rage, and the people devise useless plots?


Why are the nations in an uproar, and their people involved in a vain plot?


Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

You said, "It is futile to serve God,' and, "What did we get out of it when we carried out his requirements and went about like mourners in the presence of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies?'




The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.


When you cry out, let your collection deliver you! The wind will carry them all off, and a mere breath will sweep them all away." "But whoever takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.

So he made their days end in futility, and their years with sudden terror.


They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Whoever sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the anger he uses for a weapon will be destroyed.


In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.


LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of difficulty, to you the nations will come, and from the ends of the earth they'll say, "Surely our ancestors inherited deception, things that are worthless, and in which there is no profit."


An empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born a human being!"


For he knows mankind's deceitfulness; when he sees iniquity, won't he himself consider it?


By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.


This is what the LORD says: "What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they left me, and pursued worthless things, and so they became worthless?


He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.


You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude


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