Thematic Bible: The wicked
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For the time that has passed [was] sufficient {to do what the Gentiles desire to do}, having lived in licentiousness, [evil] desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,
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Therefore now hear this, luxuriant [one] who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one. I shall not sit [as] a widow, and I shall not know [the] loss of children."
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This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,
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who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.
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traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,
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For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
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Anger of God » Against » The wicked
God [is] a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
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Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you. You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.
Beasts » Illustrative of » The wicked
Humankind in [its] pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts [that] perish.
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A certain one of them, [one of] their own prophets, has said, "Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
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The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Despise
those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know [it]!"
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The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Understand not
But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, and they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to his threshing floor.
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The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Reject
but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)
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Darkness » The wicked » The children of
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
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Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!
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Darkness » The wicked » Live in
[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--
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Darkness » The wicked » Walk in
They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.
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Darkness » The wicked » Perpetrate their designs in
He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light
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Deceit » The wicked » Use, to themselves
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, [you who] say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down [to the] ground?'
Thus says Yahweh: 'You must not deceive yourselves, {saying}, "Surely the Chaldeans will go from us," for they will not go.
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All of your {allies} have driven you up to the boundary; your {confederates} have deceived you and have prevailed against you. [Those who eat] your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it.
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Deceit » The wicked » Devise
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
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The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
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For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.
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Deceit » The wicked » Utter
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
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The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.
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Deceit » The wicked » Work
The wicked earns {deceptive gain}, but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.
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Deceit » The wicked » Increase in
But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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Deceit » The wicked » Delight in
Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled [with] gravel.
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Deceit » The wicked » Use, to each other
And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.
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Deceit » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
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Envy » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
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Envy » The wicked » Live in
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Judge not for
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
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They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Vex
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Rob
to guide [the] needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Murder
They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans,
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Fatherless » The wicked » Overwhelm
Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Oppress
They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.
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Forgetting God » Characteristic of » The wicked
she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
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But you {who forsake} Yahweh, forgetting {my holy mountain}, who set a table for Fortune, and who {pour out} a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,
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Injustice » The wicked » Judge with
"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}? Selah
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I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.
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Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
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Injustice » The wicked » Practice, without shame
Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore} they will fall among [those who] fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh.
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"For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, {everyone} makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, {everyone} practices deceit.
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Injustice » The wicked » Deal with
[Though the] wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in [the] land [of] uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.
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Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
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I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.
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Justice » The wicked » Scorn
A worthless witness will mock justice, and the mouth of the wicked will devour iniquity.
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Justice » The wicked » Banish
And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,
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Justice » The wicked » Call not for
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
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Justice » The wicked » Passover
"But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these [things] without neglecting those things also.
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Justice » The wicked » abhor
Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that [is] right,
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The law of God » The wicked » Forsake
And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he was strengthened, he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.
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And Yahweh said, "Because of their forsaking my law that I set {before} them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it,
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The law of God » The wicked » Refuse to hear
Hear, O earth, look, I [am] about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also.
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For it [is] a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children [who are] not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,
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The law of God » The wicked » Refuse to walk in
They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.
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The law of God » The wicked » Cast away
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
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The law of God » The wicked » Forget
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
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The law of God » The wicked » Despise
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, {after which their ancestors walked}!
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Eternal life » The wicked » Have not
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.
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Eternal life » The wicked » Judge themselves unworthy of
Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly [and] said, "It was necessary [that] the word of God be spoken first to you, since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life! Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles!
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Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Punished for despising
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands.
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But if that evil slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is staying away for a long time,' and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, read more.
and will cut him in two and assign his place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
and will cut him in two and assign his place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Abuse
Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.
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But if that evil slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is staying away for a long time,' and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,
Longsuffering Of God » Exercised toward » The wicked
And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
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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.
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Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Despise
Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
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Lying » The wicked » Prepare their tongues for
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
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And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.
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Lying » The wicked » Give heed to
He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, [and] the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.
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Lying » The wicked » Addicted to, from their infancy
The wicked are estranged from [the] womb. They go astray from [the] belly, speaking lies.
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Lying » The wicked » Bring forth
See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.
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Lying » The wicked » Delight in
They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah
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Lying » The wicked » Love
You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah
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Lying » The wicked » Seek after
O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah
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Malice » The wicked » Visit saints with
They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.
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And the others, seizing his slaves, mistreated [them] and killed [them].
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Malice » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
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Malice » The wicked » Speak with
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to {the deeds he is doing}, disparaging us with evil words. And not being content with these, he does not receive the brothers himself, and he hinders those wanting [to do so] and throws [them] out of the church.
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Malice » The wicked » Conceive
See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.
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Malice » The wicked » Live in
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
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Miracles » The wicked » Forget
They also forgot his deeds, and his wonders that he had shown them.
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They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion {determined} to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger}, abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them.
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Listen, O my people, to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Miracles » The wicked » Desire to see
And [when] Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by him.
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"He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him!
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And [as] the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah!
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Miracles » The wicked » Proof against
But as many signs [as] he had performed before them, they did not believe in him,
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But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,
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Miracles » The wicked » Often acknowledge
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!
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saying, "What should we do with these men? For that a remarkable sign has taken place through them [is] evident to all those who live [in] Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny [it]!
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Miracles » The wicked » Do not understand
Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and [so] they rebelled by [the] sea at {the Red Sea}.
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Miracles » The wicked » Do not consider
because they did not understand concerning the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
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Murder » The wicked » Encourage others to commit
So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who [were] dwelling with Naboth in his city. She had written in the letters, saying, "Call a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people. Seat two men, {scoundrels}, opposite him. Let them witness against him saying, 'You cursed God and the king.' Then you shall bring him out and stone him so that he dies."
If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.
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Murder » The wicked » Devise
And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
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Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother."
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Murder » The wicked » Swift to commit
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,
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Their feet [are] swift to shed blood;
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Murder » The wicked » Perpetrate
{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.
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And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "A city pouring out blood in the midst of her; {its time has come}, and it made idols for itself, becoming unclean.
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Murder » The wicked » Intent on
"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."
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Murder » The wicked » Lie in wait to commit
He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless. He lies in ambush {secretly,} like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize [the] poor; he seizes [the] poor by catching him in his net. He is crushed; he is bowed down; so the helpless host falls by his {might}.
Murder » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
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Murder » The wicked » Have hands full of
And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.
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Peace » The wicked » Enjoy not
"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."
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Anguish comes, and they will seek peace, and [there will be] none.
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Peace » The wicked » Opposed to
I [am for] peace, but when I speak, they [are] for war.
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Peace » The wicked » Speak not
For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.
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Peace » The wicked » Hate
Too long my soul has had its dwelling near [one who] hates peace.
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Peace » The wicked » Hypocritically speak
Do not drag me away with [the] wicked or with [the] workers of evil, [who] speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil [is] in their heart.
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » There is none for
"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."
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There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Know not the way of
he enters [into] peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him.
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and they have not known the way of peace.
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Promise, to themselves
And then when he hears the words of this oath, then {he will assure himself} in his heart, {saying}, '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},' thereby destroying the well-watered [land] [along] with the parched.
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Are promised, by false teachers
And they have treated the wound of my people lightly, {saying}, 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Know not the things of
saying, "If you had known on this day--even you--the things [that make] for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
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Persecution » The wicked » Active in
For [the] enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like [those] long dead.
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Our pursuers were swifter than [the] eagles of [the] heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.
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Persecution » The wicked » Rejoice in its success
[and] lest my enemy should say, "I have overcome him," [lest] my enemies rejoice because I am shaken.
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And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.
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Persecution » The wicked » Addicted to
because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.
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In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,
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Persecution » The wicked » Encourage each other in
saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."
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The poor » The wicked » Oppress
They thrust [the] poor off the road; [the] needy of [the] earth hide themselves together. "Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young. They reap their fodder in the field, and they glean [in the] vineyard of [the] wicked. read more.
They spend the night naked, {without} clothing, and [they] have no garment in the cold. They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge. "They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy. They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry [the] sheaves.
They spend the night naked, {without} clothing, and [they] have no garment in the cold. They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge. "They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy. They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry [the] sheaves.
He oppresses [the] needy and [the] poor, [and] {he commits robbery}, [and] he [does] not return pledge for a loan, [and] he lifts his eyes to the idols [so] he does a detestable thing.
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The poor » The wicked » Regard not the cause of
[The] righteous knows [the] case of the poor, but [the] wicked does not understand knowledge.
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The poor » The wicked » Devour
You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like [one who] devours the afflicted in ambush.
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The poor » The wicked » Vex
like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will {deposit} you, and I will melt you.
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The poor » The wicked » Grind the faces of
{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.
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The poor » The wicked » Despise the counsel of
You would put to shame [the] plan of [the] poor, because Yahweh [is] his refuge.
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The poor » The wicked » Persecute
In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,
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The poor » The wicked » Defraud
saying, "When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make [the] ephah small and make [the] shekel large, and can practice deceit [with] a set of scales of deceit? {That we can} buy [the] powerless with silver and [the] poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"
The poor » The wicked » Care not for
(Now he said this not because {he was concerned} about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into [it].)
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The poor » The wicked » Tread down
Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.
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The poor » The wicked » Crush
Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"
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The poor » The wicked » Sell
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!
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God, Power of » The wicked » Know not
But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!
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God, Power of » The wicked » Shall be destroyed by
But I will show you whom you should fear: fear the one who has authority, after the killing, to throw [you] into hell! Yes, I tell you, fear this one!
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God, Power of » The wicked » Have against them
For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them."
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Pride » Characteristic of » The wicked
Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness. {How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.
Repentance » The wicked » Not led to by the judgments of God
And people were burned up [by the] great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.
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And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship} the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,
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Repentance » The wicked » Averse to
I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man [who] regrets his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?' All of them [are] turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle.
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For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did believe him. And [when] you saw [it], you did not even change your minds later [so as] to believe in him.
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Repentance » The wicked » Neglect the time given for
And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality.
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Repentance » The wicked » Not led to, by miraculous interference
And he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!' But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.'"
Repentance » The wicked » Condemned for neglecting
Then he began to reproach the towns in which the majority of his miracles had been done, because they did not repent:
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Riches » The wicked » Profit not by
Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
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There is one who acts rich but {has nothing}; another who pretends to be poor but [has] wealth.
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When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.
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Riches » The wicked » Heap up
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
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For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
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If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,
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Riches » The wicked » Have trouble with
[In] the house of the righteous [there is] much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
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But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, [because they] desire [it], have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.
Riches » The wicked » Boast themselves in
those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches?
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"Look, the man [who] would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."
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Riches » The wicked » Keep, to their hurt
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.
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Riches » The wicked » Must leave, to others
For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation].
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Riches » The wicked » Often increase in
See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
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Riches » The wicked » Trust in the abundance of
"Look, the man [who] would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."
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Riches » The wicked » Often spend their days in
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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Riches » The wicked » Swallow down
He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Slay those who follow
so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.
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[The] wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to kill him.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Do not obey
but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
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in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Speak contemptuously against those who follow
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
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And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, "The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking [him], saying, read more.
"He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him! He trusts in God; let him deliver him now if he wants to, because he said, 'I am the Son of God'!" And in the same [way] even the robbers who were crucified with him were reviling him.
"He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him! He trusts in God; let him deliver him now if he wants to, because he said, 'I am the Son of God'!" And in the same [way] even the robbers who were crucified with him were reviling him.
Righteousness » The wicked » Are far from
Listen to me, strong of heart, far from righteousness!
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[Those who] pursue a [wicked] purpose draw near; they are far from your law.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Though favored, will not learn
[Though the] wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in [the] land [of] uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.
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Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Leave off
The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.
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[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!
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Righteousness » The wicked » Should awake to
Sober up correctly and {stop sinning}, for some have no knowledge of God--I say [this] to your shame.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Vainly wish to die as those who follow
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or [as] a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!"
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Righteousness » The wicked » Should break off their sins by
Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable [to you] and your sin remove with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on [the] oppressed, {in case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity}.'"
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Righteousness » The wicked » Should sow to themselves in
Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}. Break up for yourself fallow ground; [it is] time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Make mention of God, not it
Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and {invoke} the God of Israel, [but] not in truth and not in righteousness.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Hate those who follow
Evil will slay [the] wicked, and [those who] hate [the] righteous will incur guilt.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Follow not after
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Are free from
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Do not
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Love lying rather than
You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah
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Righteousness » The wicked » Are enemies of
[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!
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The sabbath » The wicked » Pollute
"But in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes}, and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them,
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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.
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Happy [is the] man [who] does this, and [the] son of humankind [who] keeps hold of it, who keeps [the] Sabbath {so as not to profane} it, and who keeps his hand from doing any evil."
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The sabbath » The wicked » Traffic on
And the peoples of the land who bring merchandise and any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not accept it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will forego [the crops of] the seventh year and [cancel] every debt.
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In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food. Tyrian men who lived in [Jerusalem] brought fish and every kind of merchandise and sold [it] on the Sabbath to the descendants of Judah and in Jerusalem.
The sabbath » The wicked » May be judicially deprived of
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals;
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He has broken down {his dwelling} place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made [them] forget in Zion {festival} and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Profane
So I quarreled with the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the day of the Sabbath?
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You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Sometimes pretend to be zealous for
So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.
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But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answered [and] said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is necessary to work. Therefore come [and] be healed on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath!"
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The sabbath » The wicked » Dishonoring of--exemplified
When the {Israelites} were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath.
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Thus says Yahweh, "Be on your guard for the sake of yourselves, that you must not carry a burden on the day of the Sabbath, and you must [not] bring [it] through the gates of Jerusalem. And you must not carry a burden from your houses on the day of the Sabbath, and you must not do any work. But you must declare holy the day of Sabbath, just as I commanded your ancestors. Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck [so as] to not hear, nor to receive discipline.
And on the seventh day [some] of the people went out to gather, and they did not find [any].
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The sabbath » The wicked » Mock at
Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into [the] hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Honoring of--exemplified
And they went on from Perga [and] arrived at Pisidian Antioch. And they entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath [and] sat down.
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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great sound like a trumpet
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When the {Israelites} were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath. The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and to all the community. And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him.
The sabbath » The wicked » Bear burdens on
In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Work on
In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Hide their eyes from
Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and [so] I am profaned in the midst of them.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Do their own pleasure on
If you hold your foot back from [the] Sabbath, [from] doing your affairs on {my holy day}, if you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy [day] of Yahweh honorable, if you honor him {more than} doing your ways, than finding your affairs and speaking a word,
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The sabbath » The wicked » Wearied by
saying, "When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make [the] ephah small and make [the] shekel large, and can practice deceit [with] a set of scales of deceit?
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Salt » Illustrative » Preparation » The wicked » For destruction
For everyone will be salted with fire.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Corrupt
For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Obey not
I see [the] treacherous and I feel disgust, because they do not heed your word.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Frequently wrest, to their own destruction
as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Reject
[The] wise will be put to shame, they will be dismayed, and they will get taken. Look, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what [is] wisdom to them?
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The scriptures » The wicked » Make, of none effect through their traditions
And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition. For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.' But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] corban" (that is, a gift [to God]), read more.
you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother, [thus] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar [things] such as this."
you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother, [thus] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar [things] such as this."
The scriptures » The wicked » Stumble at
and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble [because they] disobey the word to which also they were consigned.
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The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Shall be surprised by
For just as the days of Noah [were], so the coming of the Son of Man will be. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark. And they did not know [anything] until the deluge came and swept [them] all away. So also the coming of the Son of Man will be.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed [by] being burned up, and the earth and the deeds [done] on it will be disclosed.
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Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of {a pregnant woman}, and they will not possibly escape.
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The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Shall be punished at
with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus, who will pay the penalty [of] eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Presume upon the delay of
But if that evil slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is staying away for a long time,'
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The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Scoff at
above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For {ever since} the fathers fell asleep, all [things] have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation."
Seeking God » The wicked » Sometimes pretend to
Yet they seek me day [by] day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced} righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments}, they desire the closeness of God.
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And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the {families}, and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing [to him] from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here.
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Seeking God » The wicked » Prepare not their hearts for
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.
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Seeking God » The wicked » Rejected, when too late in
then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.
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Seeking God » The wicked » Are gone out of the way of
Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God. All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.
Seeking God » The wicked » Not led to, by affliction
And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.
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Seeking God » The wicked » Refuse, through pride
{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.
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Self-delusion » Characteristic of » The wicked
Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--
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Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow
Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated [in] much sickness and resentment.
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Sickness » The wicked » Forsake those in
Then David said to him, "{To whom do you belong}, and from where [are] you? The young man said, "I am an Egyptian young man, a servant of an Amalekite man, but my master abandoned me because I became ill three days ago.
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Sickness » The wicked » Visit not those in
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not care for me.'
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Sin » The wicked » Tempt others to
When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food and that it [was] a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make [one] wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave [it] also to her husband with her, and he ate.
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Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on.
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My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause. Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}. read more.
We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses [with] booty, you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us."
We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses [with] booty, you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us."
"Because I exalted you from the dust and I made you a leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and you caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their sins,
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Sin » The wicked » Expect impunity in
These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.
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He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."
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while they say, "Yah does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."
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Sin » The wicked » Delight in those who commit
for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.
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who, [although they] know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same [things], but also they approve of those who do [them].
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By their wickedness they make [the] king glad, and [the] officials by their treacheries.
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Sin » The wicked » Excuse
And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate." Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, "May you be blessed by Yahweh! I have kept the word of Yahweh." But Samuel said, "Then what [is] this bleating of the sheep [that I hear] in my ears and the lowing of the cattle that I am hearing?" Saul said, "They have brought them from [the] Amalekites; the troops spared the best of the sheep and the cattle in order to sacrifice them to Yahweh your God. But the rest we have utterly destroyed."
Sin » The wicked » Led by despair to continue in
Restrain your foot from [being] barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, '[It is] hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
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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.'
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Sin » The wicked » Guilty of, in everything they do
Haughtiness of [the] eyes and pride of heart, [the] lamp of the wicked [are] sin.
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"Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt by the uncovering of your transgressions, so that your sins in all of your deeds appear--because of your being remembered, you will be captured in the hand.'
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Sin » The wicked » Encouraged in, by prosperity
The wage of the righteous [leads] to life; the gain of the wicked to sin.
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"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power? With them their offspring [are] established {before them}, and their descendants before their eyes. Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them. read more.
His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry. They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around. They {sing} to [the] tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to [the] sound of [the] long flute. They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways. Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry. They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around. They {sing} to [the] tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to [the] sound of [the] long flute. They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways. Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
Sin » The wicked » Throw the blame of, on God
And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."
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And then you come and you stand {before} me in this house, which is called {by my name}, and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing} all of these detestable things.'
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Sin » The wicked » Try to conceal, from God
Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden {at the windy time of day}. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
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And he replied, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I [am] naked, so I hid myself."
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Sin » The wicked » Heap up
"Oh rebellious children!" {declares} Yahweh, "to make a plan, but not from me, and pour out a libation, but not [from] my Spirit, {so as to add} sin to sin.
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But they sinned still further against him by rebelling [against the] Most High in the desert.
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Sin » The wicked » Servants to
Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
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Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?
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Sin » The wicked » Plead necessity for
But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the army {was scattering} from me and you did not come {at the appointed time} and [that the] Philistines had gathered at Micmash, therefore I said, 'Now [the] Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not yet implored the face of Yahweh.' So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering."
Sin » The wicked » Throw the blame of, on others
And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate." Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Sin » The wicked » Defy God in committing
Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart, those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know [it]!"
Sin » The wicked » Shall bear the shame of
Also, you bear your disgrace, [by] which you furnished justification to your sisters through your sins [by] which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also, you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous.
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Sin » The wicked » Make a mock at
Fools mock [the] guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable.
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Sin » The wicked » Dead in
And you, {although you were dead} in your trespasses and sins,
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Sin » The wicked » Cannot cease from
having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!
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Sin » The wicked » Boast of
The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.
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Sin » The wicked » Encourage themselves in
They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Addicted to
They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.
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And though they say, '{As Yahweh lives},' {therefore} they swear falsely."
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Plead excuses for
Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear {falsely}? And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known? And then you come and you stand {before} me in this house, which is called {by my name}, and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing} all of these detestable things.'
Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall have a curse upon their houses for
'I have sent it out,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name}, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'"
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall be cut off for
And he said to me, "This [is] the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and [likewise] everyone who swears [falsely] has gone unpunished according to it.
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall be judged on account of
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
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profane Swearing » The wicked » Addicted to
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
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whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
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profane Swearing » The wicked » Clothe themselves with
Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body} like water, and into his bones like oil.
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profane Swearing » The wicked » Love
Because he loved cursing, let it come [upon] him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
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Swine » Illustrative of » The wicked
"Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around [and] tear you to pieces.
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The Devil » The wicked » Are the children of
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.
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and the field is the world. And the good seed--these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.
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[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!
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The Devil » The wicked » Possessed by
But Peter said, "Ananias, for what [reason] has Satan filled your heart, [that] you lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourself [some] of the proceeds of the piece of land?
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in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,
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And Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.
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The Devil » The wicked » Ensnared by
and they will come to their senses again [and escape] from the trap of the devil, being held captive by him to [do] his will.
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But [he] must also have a good testimony from those outside, in order that he may not fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil.
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The Devil » The wicked » Blinded by
among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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The Devil » The wicked » Deceived by
Then a spirit came out and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him,' and Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go out and I will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You shall entice and succeed, go out and do so.'
The Devil » The wicked » Turn aside after
For already some have turned away [and followed] after Satan.
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The Devil » The wicked » Troubled by
Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul and an evil spirit from Yahweh tormented him.
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The Devil » The wicked » Punished, together with
Then he will also say to those on [his] left, 'Depart from me, [you] accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
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The Devil » The wicked » Do the lusts of
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.
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The favor of God » The wicked » Do not obtain
{When its branches are dry}, they are broken; women [are] coming [and] setting light to it. For it [is] not a people of understanding; therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor.
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So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor.
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The favor of God » The wicked » Uninfluenced by
[Though the] wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in [the] land [of] uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.
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Theft » The wicked » Commit, under shelter of the night
{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.
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"If thieves came to you, if plunderers of [the] night--How you have been destroyed!--would they not steal {what they wanted}? If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings?
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Theft » The wicked » Repent not of
and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.
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Theft » The wicked » Plead excuses for
Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear {falsely}? And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known? And then you come and you stand {before} me in this house, which is called {by my name}, and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing} all of these detestable things.'
Theft » The wicked » Destroy themselves by
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, for they refuse to do justice.
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Theft » The wicked » Addicted to
[The] cords of [the] wicked surround me, [but] I do not forget your law.
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Theft » The wicked » Associate with those who commit
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
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Theft » The wicked » Consent to those who commit
When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.
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Theft » The wicked » Store up the fruits of
"They do not know [how] to do right," {declares Yahweh}, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."
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Theft » The wicked » Lie in wait to commit
Like bandits lying in wait, [so is] a band of priests; they murder [on the] road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.
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Theft » The wicked » May, for a season, prosper in
[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.
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Truth » The wicked » Punished for want of
And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.
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Because of these [things] shall I not punish them?" {declares} Yahweh, "On a nation that [is] like this shall I not take revenge?
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Truth » The wicked » Uphold not
And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter, and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil [is] plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice
Truth » The wicked » Are not valiant for
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
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Truth » The wicked » Speak not
And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.
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Truth » The wicked » Plead not for
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
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Truth » The wicked » Destitute of
Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land.
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Uprightness » The wicked » Do not act with
The best of them [is] like a brier; [the most] upright [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come; now their confusion will come.
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The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.
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Uprightness » The wicked » Leave not the path of
those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,
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Uprightness » The wicked » Have not, in heart
Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.
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Vanity » The wicked » Speak
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
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They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
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And when one comes to see [me], he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.
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Vanity » The wicked » Imagine
the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?
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For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
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Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?
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Vanity » The wicked » Reap
They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of {the burning anger} of Yahweh."
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He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.
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Vanity » The wicked » Walk in
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
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This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,
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Vanity » The wicked » Judicially given up to
When {you cry}, let your collection deliver you, and [the] wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take [them] away. But he who takes refuge in me shall take possession [of] [the] land, and he shall inherit my {holy mountain}."
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And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.
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Vanity » The wicked » Count God's service as
Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
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You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
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Vanity » The wicked » Inherit
Yahweh, 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 they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
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Vanity » The wicked » Allure others by words of
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
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Vanity » The wicked » Walk after
Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?
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Vanity » The wicked » Devise
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
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Vanity » The wicked » Though full of, affect to be wise
But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.
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Vanity » The wicked » Especially characterized by
For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.
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Vanity » The wicked » Love
O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah
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The wicked » Devices of » General references to
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.
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He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
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He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
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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.'
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Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds [in] his way, about a man making plots.
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perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
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Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.
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He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.
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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.
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And he said to me, "Son of man, these [are] the men {who devise mischief}, and [who are] offering bad counsel in this city,
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The wicked » Devices of » End of
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
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whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the stomach, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things.
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Therefore [it is] not a great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
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There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.
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For [it is] the time for the judgment to begin out from the household of God. But if [it begins] out from us first, what will be the outcome for those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?
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But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. [The] future of [the] wicked shall be cut off.
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Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.
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But [if it] produces thorns and thistles, [it is] worthless and near to a curse, whose end [is] for burning.
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until I went into the sanctuary of God. [Then] I understood their fate.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Priests, corrupt
So when they saw him, the chief priests and the officers shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "You take him and crucify [him]! For I do not find a basis for an accusation against him."
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In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking [him], saying,
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Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."
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Her prophets [are] arrogant men of treachery; her priests have defiled [that which is] holy; they do violence to [the] law.
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But the chief priests incited the crowd so that he would release for them Barabbas instead.
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The prophets prophesy {falsely}, and the priests rule {by their own authority}, and my people love [it] so much. But what will you do {when the end comes}?
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Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and [so] I am profaned in the midst of them.
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Hear this, priests! Give heed, house of Israel! Listen, house of the king! Because the judgment [applies] to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor;
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Like bandits lying in wait, [so is] a band of priests; they murder [on the] road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.
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But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas and put Jesus to death.
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The wicked » Devices of » Forsaken
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, [that] their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,
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Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them as a desolation, as you see.
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Behold, your house has been left to you desolate
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Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul and an evil spirit from Yahweh tormented him.
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And she said to him, "[The] Philistines [are] upon you, Samson!" And he woke up from his sleep and said, "I will go out just like every other time and shake myself free," but he did not know that Yahweh had left him.
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And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets.
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So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.
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then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.
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But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me [for] forty years in the wilderness, [did you], house of Israel?
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The wicked » Devices of » Fate of
If only you would kill the wicked, O God-- so get away from me, [you] {bloodthirsty men}--
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These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
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wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.
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His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.
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For [there is] a cup in the hand of Yahweh with wine [that] foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all [the] wicked of [the] land {will quaff it down [to] its dregs}.
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But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.
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[The] wicked sees [it] and is vexed. He gnashes his teeth and {becomes weak}. [The] desire of [the] wicked perishes.
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When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.
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For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.
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And yet a little [while] and the wicked will not be, and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Misery of
Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted.
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"All of the wicked [one's] days he is writhing, even [through] the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
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Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!
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Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" And Saul said, "{I am in distress}! For [the] Philistines [are about] to make war against me, but God has turned away from me, and he does not answer me any more, not {by the prophets} or by the dreams. So I called to you to let me know what I should do."
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In the morning you shall say, '{If only it was evening}!' and in the evening you shall say '{If only it was morning}!' because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.
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Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse.
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[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,
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{Whenever} they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them to harm [them], just as Yahweh warned, and just as Yahweh had sworn to them. And {they were very distressed}.
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destruction and distress [are] in their paths,
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The wicked » Despised
Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.
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And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life.
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He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.
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There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap [their] hands [for joy] concerning you, {For who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty}?
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For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.
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And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.
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It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.
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And [the] righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him, [saying],
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"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people {who have rebelled} against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."
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The wicked » Confounded
So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
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All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; [the] craftsmen of idols go together in insult.
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who frustrates [the] signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives [the] wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
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[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
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And their inhabitants [are] {weak}; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become [like] plants of [the] field, and [like] greens of grass, [like] grass on [the] roofs and a cultivated field {before} the standing grain.
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Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; {your opponents} shall be like nothing and shall become lost.
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But Yahweh [is] with me like a powerful warrior. {Therefore} my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. [Their] {everlasting insult} will not be forgotten.
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He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.
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the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of [the] earth like nothing.
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
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for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.
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[The] nations have fallen in [the] pit [that] they made; their foot is caught in [the] net that they hid.
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Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
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Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them.
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He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.
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In transgression, an evil man [is] a snare, but [the] righteous will sing and rejoice.
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And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken, and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught."
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The wicked » Characteristics of
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
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hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,
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Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged [and gone] backward.
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who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,
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wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.
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You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah
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For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
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[The] wicked plans [evil] against the righteous, and gnashes at him [with] his teeth.
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But the wicked [are] like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Punishment of
but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
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And it shall be [that] at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men {whose senses are dulled from drinking}, who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.'
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And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.
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How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?
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And I will punish [the] world [for its] evil and [the] wicked [for] their iniquity. And I will put an end to [the] pride of [the] arrogant, and I will bring [the] haughtiness of tyrants low.
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For look! Yahweh [is] about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain.
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According to deeds, so he will repay; wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his {enemies}. He will repay requital to the coastlands.
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And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds," {declares} Yahweh, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all its surroundings." '"
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Threatenings against
I {in turn} will do this to you: then I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed {in vain}, and your enemies shall eat it.
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"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
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If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung} it.
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"And I will make her a possession of [the] hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with [the] broom of destruction," {declares} Yahweh of hosts.
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Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and {no one answered}; I spoke and they did not listen, but they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight."
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then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.
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But just as all the good things came to you that Yahweh your God promised, so will Yahweh bring to you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you.
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But if you continue to do wickedness, both you and your king will be swept away."
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Rooted up
Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles [which are] provoking Yahweh.
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And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.
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but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from [your] tent, and [he] will uproot you from [the] land of [the] living. Selah
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and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, {just as it is today}.'
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then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations.
See, I appoint you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, and to destroy and to tear down, to build and to plant."
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And he answered [and] said, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Insecurity of
therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks} suddenly, [in] an instant.
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Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.
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Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
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And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
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"{Therefore} their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them [in] the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.
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Because, yes, because they led my people astray, {saying} 'Peace!' And [there is] not peace. And [when] anyone builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it [with] whitewash. Say to [those] covering [it] [with] whitewash that it will fall; there will be {a torrent of rain}, and I will give stones of hail; they will fall! And a {windstorm} will burst forth!
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed, and its fall was great."
The wicked » Guilt of » Prayers of, unanswered
And Abraham drew near [to Yahweh] and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked? If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep [them] away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst? Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill [the] righteous with [the] wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?" read more.
And Yahweh said, "If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake." Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I [am] dust and ashes. Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five--will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] if I find forty-five there." And {once again he spoke} to him and said, "What if forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] on account of the forty." And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] if I find thirty there." And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the twenty." And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."
And Yahweh said, "If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake." Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I [am] dust and ashes. Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five--will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] if I find forty-five there." And {once again he spoke} to him and said, "What if forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] on account of the forty." And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] if I find thirty there." And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the twenty." And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."
And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn. And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." read more.
Then he said to him, "What [is] your name?" And he said, "Jacob." And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed." Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this--for my name?" And he blessed him there. Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [which means] "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared."
Then he said to him, "What [is] your name?" And he said, "Jacob." And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed." Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this--for my name?" And he blessed him there. Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [which means] "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared."
Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who [am] I, my lord Yahweh, and what [is] my house that you have brought me up to {this place}? Still, this [was] {insignificant} in your eyes, my lord Yahweh, and also you have spoken about the house of your servant from afar, and this [may be] the teaching of humans, my lord Yahweh. {What more can David say to you}? You know your servant, my lord Yahweh. read more.
Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, [in order] to let your servant know. Therefore you [are] great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there [is] no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears. Who [is] like your people, like Israel? [Israel is] the one nation on earth whose God {led them}, [in order] to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, [from the] nations and their gods. You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God. So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised. Your name shall be great forever, {and they will say}, 'Yahweh of hosts [is] God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you. For you, O Yahweh of hosts, [are] God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, 'I will build a house for you'; therefore your servant {has found courage} to pray this prayer to you. Now, my Lord Yahweh, you alone [are] God, and your words [are] true. You have promised this good to your servant. So then, be content and bless the house of your servant to be forever in your presence, for you, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken, and because of your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever."
Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, [in order] to let your servant know. Therefore you [are] great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there [is] no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears. Who [is] like your people, like Israel? [Israel is] the one nation on earth whose God {led them}, [in order] to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, [from the] nations and their gods. You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God. So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised. Your name shall be great forever, {and they will say}, 'Yahweh of hosts [is] God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you. For you, O Yahweh of hosts, [are] God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, 'I will build a house for you'; therefore your servant {has found courage} to pray this prayer to you. Now, my Lord Yahweh, you alone [are] God, and your words [are] true. You have promised this good to your servant. So then, be content and bless the house of your servant to be forever in your presence, for you, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken, and because of your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever."
Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all of the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands [to] the heavens, and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loyal love for your servants who are walking before you with all their heart. You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised to him, and you have spoken with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled [it] this very day. read more.
So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, 'For you, no man will be cut off from before me who [will be] sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.' So then, O God of Israel, please let your word be confirmed which you have promised to your servant David my father. For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! {How could} this house that I have built? You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant [is] praying before you this day, so that your eyes [will] be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray [toward] this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive. [If] a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house, then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and {to declare the righteous innocent} by rewarding him according to his righteousness. When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy {because} they sinned against you, and [when] they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house, then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you shall bring them back to the ground which you gave to their ancestors. When you shut up the heavens so there is no rain because they have sinned against you, then they pray to this place and they confess your name and they return from their sin because you punished them, then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you will teach them the good way in which they should go, and you will give rain upon your land which you have given to your people as an inheritance. If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease, any prayer or any plea which is [offered] by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his [own] heart and spreads out his palms to this house, then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man. [Do these things] so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors. Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, (for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house, you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built. If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate} them. "If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near, and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,' if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen and the house that you built for your name, then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate them}. You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, [even] for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them, for they [are] your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron. [O,] that your eyes [may] be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things [when] they call to you. For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestors from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!" It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven. He stood and blessed all of the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, "Blessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises [concerning] the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant. May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors, and may he not leave us or abandon us, to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors. Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh [be] near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel {as each day requires} so that all of the people of the earth may know that Yahweh, he [is] God; there is none other. Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day."
So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, 'For you, no man will be cut off from before me who [will be] sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.' So then, O God of Israel, please let your word be confirmed which you have promised to your servant David my father. For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! {How could} this house that I have built? You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant [is] praying before you this day, so that your eyes [will] be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray [toward] this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive. [If] a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house, then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and {to declare the righteous innocent} by rewarding him according to his righteousness. When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy {because} they sinned against you, and [when] they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house, then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you shall bring them back to the ground which you gave to their ancestors. When you shut up the heavens so there is no rain because they have sinned against you, then they pray to this place and they confess your name and they return from their sin because you punished them, then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you will teach them the good way in which they should go, and you will give rain upon your land which you have given to your people as an inheritance. If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease, any prayer or any plea which is [offered] by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his [own] heart and spreads out his palms to this house, then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man. [Do these things] so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors. Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, (for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house, you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built. If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate} them. "If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near, and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,' if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen and the house that you built for your name, then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate them}. You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, [even] for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them, for they [are] your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron. [O,] that your eyes [may] be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things [when] they call to you. For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestors from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!" It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven. He stood and blessed all of the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, "Blessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises [concerning] the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant. May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors, and may he not leave us or abandon us, to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors. Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh [be] near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel {as each day requires} so that all of the people of the earth may know that Yahweh, he [is] God; there is none other. Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day."
And it happened that while he was in a certain place praying, when he stopped a certain one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." And he said to them, "When you pray, say, "Father, may your name be treated as holy. May your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. read more.
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation." And he said to them, "Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I do not have anything to set before him.' And that one will answer from inside [and] say, 'Do not cause me trouble! The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed! I am not able to get up to give you [anything].' I tell you, even if he does not give him [anything] [after he] gets up because [he] is his friend, at any rate because of his impudence he will get up [and] give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake? Or also, [if] he will ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion? Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation." And he said to them, "Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I do not have anything to set before him.' And that one will answer from inside [and] say, 'Do not cause me trouble! The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed! I am not able to get up to give you [anything].' I tell you, even if he does not give him [anything] [after he] gets up because [he] is his friend, at any rate because of his impudence he will get up [and] give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake? Or also, [if] he will ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion? Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
And he told them a parable to [show that] they must always pray and not be discouraged, saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people. And there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary!' read more.
And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people, yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge is saying! And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them? I tell you that {he will see to it that justice is done} for them soon! Nevertheless, [when] the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?"
And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people, yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge is saying! And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them? I tell you that {he will see to it that justice is done} for them soon! Nevertheless, [when] the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?"
The wicked » Contrasted with the righteous
Many are [the] pains of the wicked, but [for] the one who trusts Yahweh loyal love surrounds him.
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The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion.
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Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.
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[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,
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For [the] arms of [the] wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh supports [the] righteous.
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Look! My servants shall shout {for joy}, but you, you shall cry out {for pain} and howl {for sadness}.
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"And all [the] horns of [the] wicked I will cut off. [The] horns of [the] righteous will be lifted up."
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You will return and see [the difference] between [the] righteous and [the] wicked, between [the one who] serves God and the one who does not serve him.
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The wicked » Death of
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
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"They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air, and for the wild animals of the earth."
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Have I delight by any means [in the] death of [the] wicked, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, [and] not at his turning from his way, {so that} he lives?
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Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.
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He shall die {for lack of} discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.
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Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being [honorably] buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also [is] vanity!
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At [the] time of evening, and look, terror! Before morning he is no more. This [is] the fate of those who plunder us and [the] lot of those who plunder us.
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The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.
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Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore} they will fall among [those who] fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh.
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[These are] those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again."
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The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.
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Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
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{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.
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"And you shall say to them, 'Thus asks Yahweh: "Do men fall and not stand up? If one turns away does he not return?
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rapacity of
Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
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The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--
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I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
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But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness.
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But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.
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You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
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who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
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But [when] the tenant farmers saw him, they began to reason with one another, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance will become ours!'
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The wicked » Cut off
But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.
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For those blessed [by] him shall possess [the] land, but those cursed [by] him shall be cut off.
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The fear of Yahweh adds life, but the years of the wicked are shortened.
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who were snatched away {before their time}, whose foundation was washed away [by] a current?
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Do not act excessively wicked, and do not be a fool, lest you die before your time.
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Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly [are they] sown; indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth when he blows on them and they wither, and [the] tempest carries them like stubble.
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But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. [The] future of [the] wicked shall be cut off.
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The wicked » Devices of » Forgotten
Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being [honorably] buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also [is] vanity!
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His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.
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The face of Yahweh [is] against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from [the] earth.
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I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."
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Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from [the] earth,
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For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The name of the wicked to be blotted out
Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for [by then] the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
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Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!'
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The memory of righteousness [is] like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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You have rebuked [the] nations; you have destroyed [the] wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever.
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Let his descendants be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in [the] next generation.
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"And I will rise up against them," {declares} Yahweh of hosts, "and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon, and offspring and posterity," {declares} Yahweh.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Portion of
He will rain coals on [the] wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind [will be] the portion of their cup.
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the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers.
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and will cut him in two and assign his place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
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"This [is the] portion of [the] wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai [the] inheritance of [the] ruthless.
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This [is] your lot, the portion of your measure from me," {declares} Yahweh, "because you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie.
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"He himself [is] swift on [the] water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.
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This [is] a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Unlamented
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no [one's] regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings.
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"They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air, and for the wild animals of the earth."
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And the slain [ones] of Yahweh will be on that day from [one] end of the earth to the [other] end of the earth, and they will not be mourned, and they will not be gathered, and they will not be buried. They will become like dung on the {surface} of the ground.
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{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: "They will not lament for him, 'Alas, my brother,' or 'Alas, sister.' They will not lament for him, 'Alas, lord,' or 'alas, his majesty.'
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Violence has grown to [become] a staff of wickedness; {none} from them [will remain], and {none} from their abundance nor from their wealth; and prominence [will] not [be] among them.
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Judges of israel
For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But [the] children of [the] wicked will be cut off.
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You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. [The] descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!
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Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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If their children multiply, [it is] for [the] sword, and his offspring {do not have enough to eat}.
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You will destroy their {offspring} from [the] earth, and their {descendants} from among [the] children of humankind.
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"But you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring [of] an adulterer and she [who] commits fornication.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Prosperity of
[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.
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You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.
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They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
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because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.
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I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.
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See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
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The wicked » Devices of » Will be defeated
a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,
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The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns.
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Yahweh brings to nothing [the] plan of nations; he frustrates [the] intents of peoples.
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But when it came {to the attention of} the king, he {gave orders in writing} [that] his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.
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[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
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In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,
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The wicked » Compared to chaff
His winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
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[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?
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Not so the wicked. Instead, [they are] like the chaff that [the] wind scatters.
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Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
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[The] nations roar like [the] roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of [the] mountains before [the] wind and like tumbleweed before [the] storm.
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Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like [the] dew of early morning going [away], like chaff swirling from [the] threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rejection of, by God
For you know that also afterwards, [when he] wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
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For rebellion [is like] the sin of divination; arrogance [is like] iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has rejected you from [being] king!"
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so Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel and punished them, and he gave them into the hand of the plunderers until he banished them from his presence.
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But he answered [and] said, 'Truly I say to you, I do not know you!'
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And he will reply, saying to you, 'I do not know where you are from! Go away from me, all [you] {evildoers}!'
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The wicked » Desolation of, as a result of sin
How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
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for [the] company of [the] godless [is] barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
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Evil will slay [the] wicked, and [those who] hate [the] righteous will incur guilt.
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Let them be appalled because of their shame, those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
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Behold, your house has been left to you desolate
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The wicked » Devices of » Feet of
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,
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a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,
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Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction [are] in their highways.
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Their feet [are] swift to shed blood;
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Disobedience
And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets.
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So you returned and wept {before Yahweh}; but Yahweh did not listen to your voice and did not pay [any] attention to you.
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So Saul inquired of God, "Should I go down after [the] Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him on that day.
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Judas
Then [when] Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted [what he had done] [and] returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders,
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And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away [and] hanged himself.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Joseph's brethren
Then each said to his brother, "Surely we [are] guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us."
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And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh [is] the righteous [one], and I and my people [are] the wicked [ones].
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Iniquity
Rather, your iniquities have been {barriers} between you and your God, and your sins have hidden [his] face from you, from hearing.
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Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » David
Then David said to God, "Was it not I [who] gave a command to count the people? Now I [am] he who has sinned, and I have certainly done wickedness, but these sheep, what have they done? O Yahweh, my God, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but against your people, [let there be] no plague."
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Esau
[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright. For you know that also afterwards, [when he] wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Neglect of mercy
He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Stubbornness
'Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts.
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » The israelites
And Moses spoke words to all the {Israelites}, and the people mourned greatly.
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Peter
And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside [and] wept bitterly.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Despising the law
He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Indifference
then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Israel in the wilderness
The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us." So Moses prayed for the people.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Blood-guiltiness
And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Instability
But let him ask for [it] in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Secret sin
If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The psalmist
For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The scribes and pharisees
Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The jews of ezra's time
and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
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Widow's » The wicked » Make a prey of
to guide [the] needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
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Widow's » The wicked » Reject the cause of
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans,
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Widow's » The wicked » Do no good to
[He] feeds on [the] barren, [who] does not have a child, and does no good to [the] widow.
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Widow's » The wicked » Take pledges from
They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.
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Widow's » The wicked » Send, away empty
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.
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God, Wisdom of » Exhibited in knowing » The wicked
You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day.
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For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.
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