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You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.
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Because of their wickedness do not let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.
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proclaiming, “The Lord is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
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He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the Lord our God will destroy them.
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and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
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They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness.
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The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.
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No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
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Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
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When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.
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Their malice may be concealed by deception, but their wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
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In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
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So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.
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As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
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Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,
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Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
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You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
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I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.
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Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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“Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
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As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.
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“‘Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
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I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. None of them repent of their wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues their own course like a horse charging into battle.
