Psalms 62:3

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.”

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,

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.

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.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

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

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

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

They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

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;

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

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.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

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;

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!

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

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 the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

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?

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

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

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.

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

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

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

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

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

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

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

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

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

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

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

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

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

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

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.

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

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

“ ‘ “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 keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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.’

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

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.”

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;

Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”