Psalms 140:8
Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 32:27 : 27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
- 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
- Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- Ps 10:2-3 : 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise. 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings, He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
- Ps 27:12 : 12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.
- Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute? 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
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27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.
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2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
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18 Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
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