Proverbs 4:16
For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.
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- Ps 36:4 : 4 He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil.
- Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo vnto them that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it, because their hande hath power.
- Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood.
- Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are lyke the raging sea that can not rest, whose water fometh with the mire and grauell.
- 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Hauyng eyes full of adulterie, & that can not ceasse from sinne, begylyng vnstable soules: Heartes they haue exercised with robberie, they are cursed chyldren,
- Luke 22:66 : 66 And assoone as it was day, the elders of the people, and the hye priestes, and scribes, came together, and led hym into their counsell, saying:
- John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Iesus fro Caiaphas into the hall of iudgement. It was in the mornyng: And they them selues went not into the iudgement hall, leste they shoulde be defyled: but that they myght eate the Passouer.
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17 For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.
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1 Wo vnto them that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it, because their hande hath power.
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16 For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood.
- Job 24:13-142 verses75%
13 Where as they are conuersaunt among them that abhorre the light, they know not his way, nor continue in his pathes.
14 The murtherer ryseth early and killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe?
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6 For whyles they lye in wayte, they haue made redye their heart lyke an ouen, their baker sleepeth all night, in the morning it burneth as a flambe of fire.
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16 In the darke they digge through houses, whiche they marked for them selues in the day time: they knowe not the light.
17 The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death,
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15 Abhorre it and go not therein, depart aside, and passe ouer by it.
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7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night: and they that be druncken, are druncken in the nyght.
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15 Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
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2 For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.
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4 Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.
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4 He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil.
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18 So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues.
- Isa 59:7-82 verses74%
7 Their feete runne to euyll, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their counsels are wicked counsels, harme and destruction are in their wayes.
8 But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.
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15 Their feete are swyft to shed blood.
16 Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes.
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11 If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause:
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13 In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men,
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4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not.
5 They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them?
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14 At euen beholde there is trouble, and or euer it be mornyng lo it is gone: This is the portion of them that oppresse vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.
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7 The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.
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20 For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that liue quietly in the lande.
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33 Yea sleepe on styll I say a litle, slumber a litle, folde thy handes together yet a litle:
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5 The hygh couragious stomackes are spoyled, they haue slept their slepe: and the valiaunt souldiours coulde not finde their owne handes.
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2 Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day.
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32 The vngodly spyeth the righteous: and seeketh occasion to slay hym.
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19 But the way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse, they knowe not where they fall.
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10 Yea, sleepe on still a litle, slumber a litle, folde thyne handes together yet a litle that thou mayest sleepe:
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10 They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it.
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6 They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone.
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10 For whyles the thornes cleaue together, and whyles they banquet out their feastes, they are deuoured vp as very drie stubble.
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11 For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: but they coulde not bring it to passe.
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4 Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?
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14 Which reioyce in doyng naught, and delite in the wickednesse of the euyll:
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3 Yet they say they do wel, when they do euyll: the prince asketh, and the iudge iudgeth for a rewarde, therfore the great man speaketh out of the corruption of his soule, and so they wrappe it vp.
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30 He shutteth his eyes to deuise mischiefe: and moueth his lippes to bryng euyll to passe.
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2 Is it is a vayne thing for you that ye make haste to ryse vp early, that ye make delayes to take rest, eatyng the bread of sorowes: euen so he geueth sleepe to his welbeloued.
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25 Therefore shall he declare their workes: he shall turne the night, and they shalbe destroyed.
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15 In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes,
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14 The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.
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14 They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.
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8 For as I haue proued by experience, they that plow iniquitie & sow wretchednesse, reape the same.
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12 A labouryng man sleepeth swetely, whether it be litle or much that he eateth: but the aboundaunce of the riche wyll not suffer him to sleepe.
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17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:
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3 Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.
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26 For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.