Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer.
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord, a worthless counselor.
“Thus says the Lord God: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’
As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few; for he says: “Are not my commanders all kings? Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?”
The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.
The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the Lord will bring back your harm on your own head.
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