Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.

When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.

And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.

And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the Lord had said.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth–el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.

And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath–sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.

And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.

They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.