Psalms 140:2

Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

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1 Samuel 23:9
David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

Esther 3:6
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

Esther 3:7
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Psalms 28:3
Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Luke 23:20
Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

Luke 23:21
but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”

Acts 13:10
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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1 Samuel 23:26
Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

2 Chronicles 20:12
Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

Psalms 17:11
They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Psalms 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 118:11
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.

Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Psalms 118:13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

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.

2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”

2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

2 Samuel 17:12
So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.

2 Samuel 17:13
Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:21
After they had departed, they came up out of the well and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”

Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Psalms 17:13
Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,

Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Psalms 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Psalms 59:4
I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Psalms 71:4
Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

Psalms 71:10
For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

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2 Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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2 Samuel 22:49
who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Psalms 35:20
For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Psalms 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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Psalms 37:32
The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Psalms 37:33
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Jeremiah 11:18
Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.

Jeremiah 11:20
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

Romans 3:8
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

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Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

Psalms 52:3
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

Psalms 52:4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Psalms 120:2
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Jeremiah 9:4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

Acts 24:1
After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Ephesians 2:2
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Revelation 12:10
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

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Psalms 61:8
So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.

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Psalms 35:11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Psalms 109:1
God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

Psalms 109:2
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Matthew 26:60
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward

Matthew 26:61
and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”

Matthew 26:62
The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

Acts 6:11
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

Acts 6:12
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

Acts 6:13
and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

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Proverbs 3:29
Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

Zechariah 7:10
Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Matthew 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Mark 7:22
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Mark 7:23
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”

James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

1 John 3:15
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Proverbs 14:17
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Proverbs 24:8
One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

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Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

Nahum 1:11
One has gone out of you who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

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Hosea 7:15
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

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Matthew 2:3
When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Matthew 2:4
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

Matthew 2:5
They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,

Matthew 2:6
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

Matthew 2:7
Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.

Matthew 2:8
He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

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Psalms 2:3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

Matthew 26:57
Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

Matthew 27:1
Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

Acts 4:5
In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

Acts 4:6
Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

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Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Hosea 5:2
The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.

Luke 22:2
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

Luke 22:3
Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

Luke 22:4
He went away and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

Luke 22:5
They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

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Acts 26:9
“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 26:10
I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

Acts 26:11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

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1 Kings 20:7
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

Proverbs 11:27
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Daniel 11:27
As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Romans 3:13
“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Romans 3:14
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

Romans 3:15
“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Romans 3:16
Destruction and misery are in their ways.

Romans 3:17
The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

Romans 3:18
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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Revelation 20:9
They went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

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