Verse 1

Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
  • Gen 31:29 : 29 my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me, saying, Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 `Thy sons and thy daughters `are' given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!
  • Prov 3:27 : 27 Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand `is' toward God to do `it'.
  • Hos 7:6-7 : 6 For they have drawn near, As an oven `is' their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire. 7 All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them.
  • Nah 1:11 : 11 From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.
  • Matt 27:1-2 : 1 And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death; 2 and having bound him, they did lead away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
  • Mark 15:1 : 1 And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests having made a consultation, with the elders, and scribes, and the whole sanhedrim, having bound Jesus, did lead away, and delivered `him' to Pilate;
  • Luke 20:19 : 19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.
  • Luke 22:2-6 : 2 and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people. 3 And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve, 4 and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them, 5 and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money, 6 and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, `Thou wouldst have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.
  • Prov 6:12-19 : 12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking `with' perverseness of mouth, 13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, 14 Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth. 15 Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing. 16 These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul. 17 Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood -- 18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil -- 19 A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.
  • Esth 3:8 : 8 And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, `There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws `are' diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them;
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, `Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,
  • Ps 7:14-16 : 14 Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood. 15 A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh. 16 Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
  • Ezek 11:2 : 2 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these `are' the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;
  • Ps 140:1-8 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me. 2 Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars. 3 They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah. 4 Preserve me, Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked, From one of violence Thou keepest me, Who have devised to overthrow my steps. 5 The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah. 6 I have said to Jehovah, `My God `art' Thou, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of my supplications.' 7 O Jehovah, my Lord, strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of armour. 8 Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked, His wicked device bring not forth, They are high. Selah.