for their hearts (A)devise violence,
    and their lips (B)talk of trouble.

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(A)His mouth is filled with cursing and (B)deceit and (C)oppression;
    (D)under his tongue are (E)mischief and (F)iniquity.

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14 Behold, the wicked man (A)conceives evil
    and is (B)pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.

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Do not (A)drag me off with the wicked,
    with the workers of evil,
(B)who speak peace with their neighbors
    while evil is in their hearts.

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(A)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    (B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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35 They (A)conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
    and their (B)womb prepares deceit.”

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10 and said, “You (A)son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and (B)villainy, will you not stop (C)making crooked (D)the straight paths of the Lord?

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(A)Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in (B)the palace of the high priest, whose name was (C)Caiaphas, (D)and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

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David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, (A)“Bring the ephod here.”

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20 Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, 21 but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”

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(A)Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
    (B)the prince and (C)the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
    thus they weave it together.

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14 with (A)perverted heart (B)devises evil,
    continually (C)sowing discord;

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who plan evil things in their heart
    and (A)stir up wars continually.

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shooting from (A)ambush at the blameless,
    shooting at him suddenly and (B)without fear.
They (C)hold fast to their evil purpose;
    they talk of (D)laying snares secretly,
thinking, (E)“Who can see them?”
    They search out injustice,
saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”
    For (F)the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.

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He (A)plots (B)trouble while on his bed;
    he sets himself in (C)a way that is not good;
    (D)he does not reject evil.

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But he disdained[a] to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy[b] all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, (A)they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is (B)the month of Adar.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:6 Hebrew disdained in his eyes
  2. Esther 3:6 Or annihilate

Whoever (A)plans to do evil
    will be called a schemer.

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