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18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
    feet that hurry to run to evil,(A)

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The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.(A)

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16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood.(A)

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15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;(A)

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14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness
    so that you may be saved.
How long shall your evil schemes
    lodge within you?(A)

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Their feet run to evil,
    and they rush to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.(A)

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17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”(A)

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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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Footnotes

  1. 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil

Whoever plans to do evil
    will be called a mischief-maker.(A)

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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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