Verse 2

Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which seate maketh wrong to be enacted for a law?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Wo be vnto them that make vnrighteous lawes, and that causeth their actuaries to wryte greeuousnesse,
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The path of equitie wylt thou graunt vnto the iust O thou most righteous thou shalt order the path of hym that is righteous.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill. 5 They breede cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe, who so eateth of their egges, dyeth: but if one treade vpon them, there commeth vp a serpent. 6 Their webbe maketh no cloth, and they may not couer them with their labours: their deedes are the deedes of wickednesse, and the worke of robberie is in their handes.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 Yea, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well: From whence came this, but onlye because he knewe me, saith the Lorde? 17 Neuerthelesse, as for thyne eyes and thyne heart they loke vpon couetousnesse, to shed innocent blood, to do wrong and violence.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 Yea giftes haue ben receaued in thee to shed blood, thou hast taken vsurie and encrease, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, saith the Lorde God.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Thy rulers in thee are lyke woolues rauenyng the pray, to shed blood, and destroy soules, for their owne couetous lucre.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I saide, heare I pray you O heads of Iacob, & ye princes of the house of Israel, shoulde not ye know iudgement? 2 But they hate the good, and loue the euill, they plucke of their skinnes from them, and their fleshe from their bones. 3 And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Heare this I pray you ye heades of the house of Iacob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie. 10 They builde vp Sion with blood, and Hierusalem with iniquitie. 11 (The heades therof iudge for rewards, and the priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophetes thereof prophecie for money: yet wyll they leane vpon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.) 12 Therefore shall Sion for your sake be plowed as a fielde, & Hierusalem shalbe an heape, and the mountaine of the house as the hie places of the forest.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 And nowe we call the proude happie: yea the workers of wickednesse are set vp, and also they that tempt God, yea they are deliuered.
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 Then gathered the hye priestes and the pharisees a councell, and sayde: What do we? For this man doth many miracles. 48 If we let hym scape thus, all men wyll beleue on him, and the Romaynes shall come, and take away both our rowme and the people. 49 And one of them named Caiaphas, beyng the hye priest that same yere, sayde vnto them: Ye perceaue nothyng at all, 50 Nor consider, that it is expedient for vs, that one man dye for the people, and not that all the people perishe. 51 This spake he, not of hym selfe, but beyng hye priest that same yere, he prophesied that Iesus shoulde dye for the people, 52 And not for the people only: but that he shoulde gather together in one, the chyldren of God, that were scattered abrode. 53 Then from that day foorth, they toke councell together, for to put hym to death.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 Moreouer, I sawe vnder the sunne vngodlynes in the steade of iudgement, & iniquitie in steade of righteousnesse.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: but they coulde not bring it to passe.