Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.

He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."

But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'



Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

And he said to me, "Son of man, these [are] the men {who devise mischief}, and [who are] offering bad counsel in this city,


A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good. He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.


Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you, [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things-- those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, read more.
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good. He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

The lips of the righteous know [the] acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, the perverse.


Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.

He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."

But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'



Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

And he said to me, "Son of man, these [are] the men {who devise mischief}, and [who are] offering bad counsel in this city,


The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."

Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came [to] Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.


in which also he went [and] proclaimed to the spirits in prison, who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.

Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

because they despised my judgments, and {they did not walk in my statutes}, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols.

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue, [though] he spares it and does not let it go [and] holds it back in the midst of his palate,

{They feed on the sin of my people}, {they are greedy} for their iniquity.



Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you, [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things-- those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, read more.
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good. He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

The lips of the righteous know [the] acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, the perverse.


Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.

He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."

But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'



Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

And he said to me, "Son of man, these [are] the men {who devise mischief}, and [who are] offering bad counsel in this city,