"Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth."
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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
\58:1\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.