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Character » Of the wicked » Conspiring against saints
They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw it into confusion.
Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: “Come, let’s meet together in the villages of the Ono Valley.” But they were planning to harm me.
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
Character of the wicked » Conspiring against God's people
They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw it into confusion.
Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: “Come, let’s meet together in the villages of the Ono Valley.” But they were planning to harm me.
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
Deceit » The wicked » Devise
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
but guidance from the wicked leads to deceit.
but contrive deceitful schemes
against those who live peacefully in the land.
Deceit » Devise
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
but guidance from the wicked leads to deceit.
but contrive deceitful schemes
against those who live peacefully in the land.
Evil » The whole » Imagination
feet eager to run to evil,
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”
When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,
Verse Concepts
The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do, even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”
They keep on saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said: You will have peace.’ They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’”
For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
Slander » Saints exposed to
So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
they speak against me with lying tongues.