Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.