Proverbs 3:29

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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

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.

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

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

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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.

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

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

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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

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

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

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,

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

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.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

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.

He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

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.

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

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

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

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

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

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

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

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.

Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

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.

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.’

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.”

Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?