Verse 4

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 65:2 : 2 I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.
  • Mic 2:1 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
  • Ps 97:10 : 10 Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
  • Matt 27:1 : 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;
  • 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;
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'
  • Jer 8:6 : 6 I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.
  • Jer 9:2-9 : 2 Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them `are' adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones. 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. 6 thy dwelling `is' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 7 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people? 8 A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush, 9 For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?
  • 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.
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 And Saul sendeth messengers unto the house of David to watch him, and to put him to death in the morning; and Michal his wife declareth to David, saying, `If thou art not delivering thy life to-night -- tomorrow thou art put to death.'
  • 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 6:4 : 4 And the king saith, `Who `is' in the court?' -- and Haman hath come in to the outer court of the house of the king, to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him --
  • Job 15:16 : 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
  • Ps 38:12 : 12 And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.
  • Ps 52:3 : 3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.