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The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
¶ I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
¶ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
¶ Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.
¶ And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
And an host was given [him] against the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
¶ The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.
The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men.
¶ They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it [is] wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.
¶ [He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done [it], and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
¶ A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee.
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