'Wicked' in the Bible

BOOK I(Psalms 1–41)How happy is the manwho does not follow the advice of the wickedor take the path of sinnersor join a group of mockers!

The wicked are not like this;instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not survive the judgment,and sinners will not be in the community of the righteous.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Rise up, Lord!Save me, my God!You strike all my enemies on the cheek;You break the teeth of the wicked.

But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

The wicked say to themselves, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

The one who despises those who are utterly wicked, but who honors the one who fears the LORD, who keeps his word even when it hurts and does not change,

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

To [the] pure you show yourself pure. but to [the] wicked you show yourself shrewd.

Though they intend to harm youand devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers!

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous],For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

The sword [of the ungodly] will enter their own heart,And their bow will be broken.

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them.

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

They devise wicked schemes, saying, "We have completed our plans, hiding them deep in our hearts."

By awesome and wondrous things You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,You who are the trust and hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Therefore his people return to this place,And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.

Look at them—the wicked!They are always at ease,and they increase their wealth.

Then I entered the precincts of God's temple, and understood the destiny of the wicked.

Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;You cast them down to destruction.

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Better a day in Your courtsthan a thousand anywhere else.I would rather be at the door of the house of my Godthan to live in the tents of wicked people.

The enemy will not afflict him;no wicked man will oppress him.

You will not be afraid of the terror of night,Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

The wicked kill widows and foreigners; they murder orphans.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Who stands up for me against the wicked?Who takes a stand for me against evildoers?

Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

You answered them, O Lord our God;You were a forgiving God to them,And yet an avenger of their evil practices.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.