Thematic Bible: The wicked
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
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"Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
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who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
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For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Anger of God » Against » The wicked
God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
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Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
Beasts » Illustrative of » The wicked
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.
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One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."
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The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Despise
Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"
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The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Understand not
But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
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The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Reject
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
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Darkness » The wicked » The children of
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
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Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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Darkness » The wicked » Live in
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
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Darkness » The wicked » Walk in
They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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Darkness » The wicked » Perpetrate their designs in
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
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Deceit » The wicked » Use, to themselves
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
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All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him."
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Deceit » The wicked » Devise
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
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The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
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For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
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Deceit » The wicked » Utter
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
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Deceit » The wicked » Work
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
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Deceit » The wicked » Increase in
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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Deceit » The wicked » Delight in
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
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Deceit » The wicked » Use, to each other
They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Deceit » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
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Envy » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
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Envy » The wicked » Live in
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Judge not for
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Vex
In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Rob
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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Fatherless » The wicked » Murder
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Overwhelm
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
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Fatherless » The wicked » Oppress
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Forgetting God » Characteristic of » The wicked
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
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"But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
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Injustice » The wicked » Judge with
"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
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Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
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Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
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Injustice » The wicked » Practice, without shame
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says Yahweh.
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"For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Injustice » The wicked » Deal with
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
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Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins -- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
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I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
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Justice » The wicked » Scorn
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
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Justice » The wicked » Banish
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
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Justice » The wicked » Call not for
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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Justice » The wicked » Passover
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
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Justice » The wicked » abhor
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
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The law of God » The wicked » Forsake
It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.
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Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
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The law of God » The wicked » Refuse to hear
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
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For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
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The law of God » The wicked » Refuse to walk in
They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk 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 as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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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 will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, 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, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
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Eternal life » The wicked » Have not
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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Eternal life » The wicked » Judge themselves unworthy of
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
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Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Punished for despising
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
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Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it, read more.
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Abuse
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
Longsuffering Of God » Exercised toward » The wicked
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
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who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
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Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Despise
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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Lying » The wicked » Prepare their tongues for
They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
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They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Lying » The wicked » Give heed to
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
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Lying » The wicked » Addicted to, from their infancy
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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Lying » The wicked » Bring forth
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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Lying » The wicked » Delight in
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
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Lying » The wicked » Love
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
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Lying » The wicked » Seek after
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
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Malice » The wicked » Visit saints with
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
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and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
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Malice » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
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Malice » The wicked » Speak with
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
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Malice » The wicked » Conceive
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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Malice » The wicked » Live in
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Miracles » The wicked » Forget
They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
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and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
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Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Miracles » The wicked » Desire to see
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
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"He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
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When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
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Miracles » The wicked » Proof against
But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,
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because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
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Miracles » The wicked » Often acknowledge
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
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saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
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Miracles » The wicked » Do not understand
Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
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Miracles » The wicked » Do not consider
for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
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Murder » The wicked » Encourage others to commit
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
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Murder » The wicked » Devise
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
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Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
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Murder » The wicked » Swift to commit
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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"Their feet are swift to shed blood.
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Murder » The wicked » Perpetrate
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
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Murder » The wicked » Intent on
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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Murder » The wicked » Lie in wait to commit
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
Murder » The wicked » Being Full of
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
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Murder » The wicked » Have hands full of
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. 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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Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
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Peace » The wicked » Opposed to
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.
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Peace » The wicked » Speak not
For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
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Peace » The wicked » Hate
My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
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Peace » The wicked » Hypocritically speak
Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
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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 rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
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The way of peace, they haven't known."
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Promise, to themselves
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Are promised, by false teachers
They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, 'Peace, peace!' when there is no peace.
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spiritual Peace » The wicked » Know not the things of
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
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Persecution » The wicked » Active in
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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Persecution » The wicked » Rejoice in its success
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
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Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
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Persecution » The wicked » Addicted to
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
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In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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Persecution » The wicked » Encourage each other in
saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."
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The poor » The wicked » Oppress
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked. read more.
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter. There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter. There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
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The poor » The wicked » Regard not the cause of
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
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The poor » The wicked » Devour
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
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The poor » The wicked » Vex
As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
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The poor » The wicked » Grind the faces of
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
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The poor » The wicked » Despise the counsel of
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
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The poor » The wicked » Persecute
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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The poor » The wicked » Defraud
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
The poor » The wicked » Care not for
Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
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The poor » The wicked » Tread down
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
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The poor » The wicked » Crush
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
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The poor » The wicked » Sell
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
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God, Power of » The wicked » Know not
But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
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God, Power of » The wicked » Shall be destroyed by
But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
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God, Power of » The wicked » Have against them
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him."
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Pride » Characteristic of » The wicked
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
Repentance » The wicked » Not led to by the judgments of God
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
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The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
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Repentance » The wicked » Averse to
I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
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Repentance » The wicked » Neglect the time given for
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
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Repentance » The wicked » Not led to, by miraculous interference
"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
Repentance » The wicked » Condemned for neglecting
Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent.
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Riches » The wicked » Profit not by
Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
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When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
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Riches » The wicked » Heap up
"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
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Riches » The wicked » Have trouble with
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
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But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Riches » The wicked » Boast themselves in
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches --
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"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
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Riches » The wicked » Keep, to their hurt
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
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Riches » The wicked » Must leave, to others
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
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Riches » The wicked » Often increase in
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
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Riches » The wicked » Trust in the abundance of
"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
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Riches » The wicked » Often spend their days in
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
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Riches » The wicked » Swallow down
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Slay those who follow
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
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unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
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The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Do not obey
but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
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that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Speak contemptuously against those who follow
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
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Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said, read more.
"He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
"He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
Righteousness » The wicked » Are far from
Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:
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They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Though favored, will not learn
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
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Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Leave off
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
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You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
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Righteousness » The wicked » Should awake to
Wake up righteously, and don't sin, 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 number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!"
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Righteousness » The wicked » Should break off their sins by
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Should sow to themselves in
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Make mention of God, not it
"Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
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Righteousness » The wicked » Hate those who follow
Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Follow not after
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
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Righteousness » The wicked » Are free from
For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Do not
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Love lying rather than
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
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Righteousness » The wicked » Are enemies of
and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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The sabbath » The wicked » Pollute
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
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because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
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Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."
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The sabbath » The wicked » Traffic on
and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food. There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
The sabbath » The wicked » May be judicially deprived of
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
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He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Profane
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
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You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Sometimes pretend to be zealous for
Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
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The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
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The sabbath » The wicked » Dishonoring of--exemplified
While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
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Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Mock at
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Honoring of--exemplified
But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
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While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
The sabbath » The wicked » Bear burdens on
In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Work on
In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Hide their eyes from
Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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The sabbath » The wicked » Do their own pleasure on
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:
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The sabbath » The wicked » Wearied by
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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Salt » Illustrative » Preparation » The wicked » For destruction
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Corrupt
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Obey not
I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't observe your word.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Frequently wrest, to their own destruction
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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The scriptures » The wicked » Reject
The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
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The scriptures » The wicked » Make, of none effect through their traditions
He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"' read more.
then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
The scriptures » The wicked » Stumble at
and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
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The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Shall be surprised by
"As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
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For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
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The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Shall be punished at
giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Presume upon the delay of
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'
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The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Scoff at
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
Seeking God » The wicked » Sometimes pretend to
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
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then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers' [houses], and said to them, "Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we sacrifice to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here."
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Seeking God » The wicked » Prepare not their hearts for
He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.
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Seeking God » The wicked » Rejected, when too late in
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
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Seeking God » The wicked » Are gone out of the way of
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God. They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
Seeking God » The wicked » Not led to, by affliction
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
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Seeking God » The wicked » Refuse, through pride
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
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Self-delusion » Characteristic of » The wicked
Though while he lived he blessed his soul -- and men praise you when you do well for yourself --
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Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
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Sickness » The wicked » Forsake those in
David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
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Sickness » The wicked » Visit not those in
I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit 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 that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
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But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
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My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent. If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. read more.
We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."
We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."
"Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
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Sin » The wicked » Expect impunity in
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
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He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
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They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."
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Sin » The wicked » Delight in those who commit
For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
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who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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Sin » The wicked » Excuse
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh." Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?" Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."
Sin » The wicked » Led by despair to continue in
"Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
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But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
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Sin » The wicked » Guilty of, in everything they do
A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
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Sin » The wicked » Encouraged in, by prosperity
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
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"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. read more.
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
Sin » The wicked » Throw the blame of, on God
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
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and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
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Sin » The wicked » Try to conceal, from God
They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the 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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The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
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Sin » The wicked » Heap up
"Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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Sin » The wicked » Servants to
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
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Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
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Sin » The wicked » Plead necessity for
Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash; therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh.' I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering."
Sin » The wicked » Throw the blame of, on others
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Sin » The wicked » Defy God in committing
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope; Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"
Sin » The wicked » Shall bear the shame of
You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
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Sin » The wicked » Make a mock at
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
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Sin » The wicked » Dead in
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
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Sin » The wicked » Cannot cease from
having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
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Sin » The wicked » Boast of
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
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Sin » The wicked » Encourage themselves in
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Addicted to
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
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Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely."
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Plead excuses for
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall have a curse upon their houses for
I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall be cut off for
Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
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Swearing falsely » The wicked » Shall be judged on account of
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
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profane Swearing » The wicked » Addicted to
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
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profane Swearing » The wicked » Clothe themselves with
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
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profane Swearing » The wicked » Love
Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
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Swine » Illustrative of » The wicked
"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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The Devil » The wicked » Are the children of
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
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the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
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and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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The Devil » The wicked » Possessed by
But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
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in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
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Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve.
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The Devil » The wicked » Ensnared by
and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
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Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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The Devil » The wicked » Blinded by
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
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The Devil » The wicked » Deceived by
A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, 'I will entice him.' Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.'
The Devil » The wicked » Turn aside after
For already some have turned aside 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 troubled him.
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The Devil » The wicked » Punished, together with
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is 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. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
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The favor of God » The wicked » Do not obtain
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
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therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.
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The favor of God » The wicked » Uninfluenced by
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
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Theft » The wicked » Commit, under shelter of the night
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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"If thieves came to you, if robbers by night -- oh, what disaster awaits you -- wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?
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Theft » The wicked » Repent not of
They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
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Theft » The wicked » Plead excuses for
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
Theft » The wicked » Destroy themselves by
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
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Theft » The wicked » Addicted to
The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.
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Theft » The wicked » Associate with those who commit
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Theft » The wicked » Consent to those who commit
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
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Theft » The wicked » Store up the fruits of
"Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
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Theft » The wicked » Lie in wait to commit
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
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Theft » The wicked » May, for a season, prosper in
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
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Truth » The wicked » Punished for want of
They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Truth » The wicked » Uphold not
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter. Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Truth » The wicked » Are not valiant for
They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
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Truth » The wicked » Speak not
They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Truth » The wicked » Plead not for
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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Truth » The wicked » Destitute of
Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor 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 is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
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The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
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Uprightness » The wicked » Leave not the path of
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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Uprightness » The wicked » Have not, in heart
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
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Vanity » The wicked » Speak
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
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Vanity » The wicked » Imagine
who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
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Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Vanity » The wicked » Reap
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
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He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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Vanity » The wicked » Walk in
"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
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Vanity » The wicked » Judicially given up to
When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain."
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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
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Vanity » The wicked » Count God's service as
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
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You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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Vanity » The wicked » Inherit
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
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Vanity » The wicked » Allure others by words of
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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Vanity » The wicked » Walk after
Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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Vanity » The wicked » Devise
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
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Vanity » The wicked » Though full of, affect to be wise
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
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Vanity » The wicked » Especially characterized by
For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
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Vanity » The wicked » Love
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
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The wicked » Devices of » General references to
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
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One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
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But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
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Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
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in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
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Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
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One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
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The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
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He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
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The wicked » Devices of » End of
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
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whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
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It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
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There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
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For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?
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As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
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What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
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Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Priests, corrupt
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
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Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,
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Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
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Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
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But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
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Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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"Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
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As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
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Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
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The wicked » Devices of » Forsaken
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
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Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
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Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
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Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
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She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
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When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
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So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
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Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
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But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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The wicked » Devices of » Fate of
If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
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These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
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For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
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But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
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The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
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though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
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For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Misery of
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
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the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do."
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In the morning you shall say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
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Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
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oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.
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Destruction and misery are in their ways.
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The wicked » Despised
He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him --
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You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.
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He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
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There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?
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A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
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Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
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"They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
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The wicked » Confounded
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
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who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
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He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
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Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
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Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
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But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
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He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
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who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
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He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
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Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
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An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.
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Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."
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The wicked » Characteristics of
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
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Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
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who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
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wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
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But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Punishment of
but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
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It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."
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That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
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How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
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For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
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According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
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I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Threatenings against
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
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I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
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If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
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"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.
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I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
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then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
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But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Rooted up
For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
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But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
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and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day."
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then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
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But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Insecurity of
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
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Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
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Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
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Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
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Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
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Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash: tell those who plaster it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell -- and great was its fall."
The wicked » Guilt of » Prayers of, unanswered
Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?" read more.
Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake." He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there." He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake." He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake." He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there." He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake." He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled. The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me." read more.
He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob." He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed." Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob." He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed." Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh! What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh. read more.
For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken. Let your name be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.' For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. "Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing."
For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken. Let your name be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.' For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. "Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing."
Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; and he said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart; who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. read more.
Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.' "Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built! Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day; that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there;' to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. "If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in this house; then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house: then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. "When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;) that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house; hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;' if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh." It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require; that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is none else. "Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.' "Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built! Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day; that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there;' to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. "If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in this house; then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house: then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. "When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;) that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house; hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;' if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh." It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require; that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is none else. "Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread. read more.
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'" He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,' and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'? I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'" He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,' and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'? I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man. A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' read more.
He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
The wicked » Contrasted with the righteous
Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
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The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
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Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
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oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
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behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.
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I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
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Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
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"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
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They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
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Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
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But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
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At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says Yahweh.
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Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."
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The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
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Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rapacity of
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
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For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
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The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
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But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
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You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
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who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
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"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
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But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
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For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
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The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
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Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
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They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
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So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
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His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
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Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
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Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The name of the wicked to be blotted out
Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
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let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."
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The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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"I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says Yahweh.
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On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
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then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
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and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
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"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
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This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
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"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
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This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Unlamented
Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
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They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
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The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
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Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
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Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.
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The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Judges of israel
For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
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You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.
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You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
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You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
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"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Prosperity of
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
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You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
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They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
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For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
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Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
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The wicked » Devices of » Will be defeated
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
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A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
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Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
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but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
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In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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The wicked » Compared to chaff
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
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How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
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The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
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Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
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Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rejection of, by God
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
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For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."
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Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
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But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.'
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He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
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The wicked » Desolation of, as a result of sin
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
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For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
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Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
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Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"
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Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
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The wicked » Devices of » Feet of
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
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"Their feet are swift to shed blood.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Disobedience
When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
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You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.
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Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn't answer him that day.
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Judas
Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
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He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
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The wicked » Guilt of » Joseph's brethren
They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
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Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Iniquity
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
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Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » David
David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Esau
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Neglect of mercy
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Stubbornness
It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies;
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » The israelites
Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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The wicked » Remorse of, examples of » Peter
Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Despising the law
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Indifference
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will 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, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Blood-guiltiness
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Instability
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Secret sin
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The psalmist
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
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The wicked » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The scribes and pharisees
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
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The wicked » Guilt of » The jews of ezra's time
and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
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Widow's » The wicked » Make a prey of
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Widow's » The wicked » Reject the cause of
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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Widow's » The wicked » Do no good to
He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
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Widow's » The wicked » Take pledges from
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Widow's » The wicked » Send, away empty
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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God, Wisdom of » Exhibited in knowing » The wicked
and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is this day.
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For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
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