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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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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Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men:
Psalms 140:4
Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
Psalms 140:6
I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
Psalms 140:7
Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
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.
Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Psalms 140:11
An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
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Deuteronomy 32:27
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.’ ”
Isaiah 37:29
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
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Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 35:25
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Psalms 41:11
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
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Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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