Acts 23:15

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

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.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’ ”

He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.

Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.