For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; read more Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: show less

Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,