Psalms 140:2

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

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.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

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.

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

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

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.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

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

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

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

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

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

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

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

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

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

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.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

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

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

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

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

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

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

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.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

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.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

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

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

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

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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 it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.