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Social Evils Denounced

Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in their power.(A)

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  1. 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil

They plot mischief while on their beds;
    they are set on a way that is not good;
    they do not reject evil.(A)

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11 From you one has gone out
    who plots evil against the Lord,
    one who counsels wickedness.(A)

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For they are kindled[a] like an oven; their heart burns within them;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
    none of them calls upon me.(A)

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  1. 7.6 Gk Syr: Heb brought near

The villainies of villains are evil;
    they devise wicked devices
to ruin the poor with lying words,
    even when the plea of the needy is right.(A)

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27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,[a]
    when it is in your power to do it.(A)

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  1. 3.27 Heb from its owners

32 Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.(A)

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29 It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’(A)

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30 slanderers, God-haters,[a] insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,(A)

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  1. 1.30 Or God-hated