Psalms 9:15

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

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

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

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

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

Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”

“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

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.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

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.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

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.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

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.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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

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

For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

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

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.