MALICE

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• Genesis 3:15

  I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

• Genesis 4:8

  Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

• Genesis 21:9

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• Genesis 21:10

  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

• Genesis 39:17

  She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

• Genesis 39:18

  and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:19

  When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

• Genesis 42:21

  They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

• Leviticus 19:14

  “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:17

  “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

• Leviticus 19:18

  “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 23:3

  An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever;

• Deuteronomy 23:4

  because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

• Deuteronomy 27:17

  ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:18

  ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 32:32

  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.

• Deuteronomy 32:33

  Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

• 1 Samuel 18:8

  Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

• 1 Samuel 18:9

  Saul watched David from that day and forward.

• 1 Samuel 18:10

  On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;

• 1 Samuel 18:11

  and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David even to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

• 1 Samuel 18:12

  Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

• 1 Samuel 18:13

  Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

• 1 Samuel 18:14

  David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

• 1 Samuel 18:15

  When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

• 1 Samuel 18:16

  But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

• 1 Samuel 18:17

  Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

• 1 Samuel 18:18

  David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”

• 1 Samuel 18:19

  But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:20

  Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

• 1 Samuel 18:22

  Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”

• 1 Samuel 18:24

  The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 18:26

  When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:28

  Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

• 1 Samuel 18:29

  Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

• 1 Samuel 20:30

  Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

• 1 Samuel 20:31

  For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

• 1 Samuel 20:32

  Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

• 1 Samuel 20:33

  Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

• 1 Samuel 22:6

  Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

• 1 Samuel 22:7

  Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

• 1 Samuel 22:8

  that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

• 1 Samuel 22:9

  Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

• 1 Samuel 22:10

  He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

• 1 Samuel 22:11

  Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

• 1 Samuel 22:12

  Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”

• 1 Samuel 22:13

  Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

• 1 Samuel 22:14

  Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

• 1 Samuel 22:15

  Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

• 1 Samuel 22:16

  The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

• 1 Samuel 22:17

  The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 22:18

  The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 23:7

  Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”

• 1 Samuel 23:8

  Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

• 1 Samuel 23:9

  David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

• 1 Samuel 23:10

  Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

• 1 Samuel 23:11

  Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” Yahweh said, “He will come down.”

• 1 Samuel 23:12

  Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

• 1 Samuel 23:13

  Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

• 1 Samuel 23:14

  David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

• 1 Samuel 23:15

  David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

• 1 Samuel 23:16

  Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

• 1 Samuel 23:17

  He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

• 1 Samuel 23:18

  They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

• 1 Samuel 23:19

  Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

• 1 Samuel 23:20

  Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

• 1 Samuel 23:21

  Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

• 1 Samuel 23:22

  Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he deals very crafty.

• 1 Samuel 23:23

  See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

• 1 Samuel 26:18

  He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

• 2 Samuel 6:21

  David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 6:22

  I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the servants of whom you have spoken, they will honor me.”

• 2 Samuel 6:23

  Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

• 2 Samuel 16:5

  When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.

• 2 Samuel 16:6

  He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

• 2 Samuel 16:7

  Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!

• 2 Samuel 16:8

  Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

• 2 Samuel 17:1

  Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

• 2 Samuel 17:2

  I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

• 2 Samuel 17:3

  and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

• 1 Kings 2:5

  “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

• 1 Kings 2:6

  Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

• 1 Kings 2:8

  “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

• 1 Kings 2:9

  Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

• 1 Kings 19:1

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

• 1 Kings 19:2

  Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

• 2 Kings 6:21

  The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

• 2 Kings 6:22

  He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

• 2 Kings 6:31

  Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

• Nehemiah 2:10

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Esther 3:5

  When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

• Esther 3:6

  But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

• Esther 3:7

  In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

• Esther 3:8

  Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

• Esther 3:9

  If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

• Esther 3:10

  The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

• Esther 3:11

  The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

• Esther 3:12

  Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

• Esther 3:13

  Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

• Esther 3:14

  A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

• Esther 3:15

  The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

• Esther 5:9

  Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

• Esther 5:10

  Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

• Esther 5:11

  Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

• Esther 5:12

  Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

• Esther 5:13

  Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

• Esther 5:14

  Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

• Job 15:35

  They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

• Job 31:29

  “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

• Job 31:30

  (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

• Psalms 4:2

  You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

• Psalms 7:14

  Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

• Psalms 7:15

  He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

• Psalms 7:16

  The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

• Psalms 10:7

  His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

• Psalms 10:8

  He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

• Psalms 10:9

  He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

• Psalms 10:10

  The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

• Psalms 10:14

  But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

• Psalms 21:11

  For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

• Psalms 22:7

  All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

• Psalms 22:8

  “He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

• Psalms 35:15

  But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

• Psalms 35:16

  Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

• Psalms 35:19

  Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

• Psalms 35:20

  For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

• Psalms 35:21

  Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

• Psalms 38:16

  For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

• Psalms 38:19

  But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

• Psalms 41:5

  My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

• Psalms 41:6

  If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

• Psalms 41:7

  All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

• Psalms 41:8

  “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

• Psalms 55:3

  Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

• Psalms 55:10

  Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

• Psalms 55:11

  Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

• Psalms 56:5

  All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

• Psalms 56:6

  They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

• Psalms 57:4

  My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

• Psalms 57:6

  They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.

• Psalms 59:3

  For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

• Psalms 59:4

  I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

• Psalms 59:6

  They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

• Psalms 59:7

  Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

• Psalms 62:3

  How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

• Psalms 62:4

  They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

• Psalms 64:2

  Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

• Psalms 64:3

  who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

• Psalms 64:4

  to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

• Psalms 64:5

  They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

• Psalms 64:6

  They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

• Psalms 69:4

  Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

• Psalms 69:10

  When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

• Psalms 69:11

  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

• Psalms 69:12

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

• Psalms 69:26

  For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

• Psalms 70:2

  Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

• Psalms 70:3

  Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, “Aha! Aha!”

• Psalms 71:10

  For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

• Psalms 71:11

  saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

• Psalms 71:13

  Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

• Psalms 71:24

  My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

• Psalms 74:20

  Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

• Psalms 86:14

  God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

• Psalms 102:8

  My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

• Psalms 109:2

  for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

• Psalms 109:3

  They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

• Psalms 109:4

  In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

• Psalms 109:5

  They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

• Psalms 109:16

  because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

• Psalms 109:17

  Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

• Psalms 109:18

  He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

• Psalms 119:78

  Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

• Psalms 119:150

  They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

• Psalms 140:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;

• Psalms 140:2

  those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

• Psalms 140:3

  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

• Psalms 140:4

  Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

• Proverbs 4:16

  For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

• Proverbs 4:17

  For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

• Proverbs 6:14

  in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

• Proverbs 6:16

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:18

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 6:19

  a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

• Proverbs 10:6

  Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

• Proverbs 11:17

  The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

• Proverbs 12:10

  A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

• Proverbs 14:17

  He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

• Proverbs 14:22

  Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

• Proverbs 16:30

  One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

• Proverbs 17:5

  Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

• Proverbs 20:22

  Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

• Proverbs 21:10

  The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

• Proverbs 24:8

  One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

• Proverbs 24:17

  Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

• Proverbs 24:18

  lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

• Proverbs 24:29

  Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

• Proverbs 26:2

  Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.

• Proverbs 26:27

  Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

• Proverbs 28:10

  Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

• Proverbs 30:14

  There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —

• Isaiah 29:21

  who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

• Isaiah 59:4

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Isaiah 59:5

  They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

• Isaiah 59:6

  Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

• Isaiah 59:7

  Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.

• Jeremiah 20:10

  For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”

• Jeremiah 26:8

  When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

• Jeremiah 26:9

  Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant?’” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 26:10

  When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 26:11

  Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

• Jeremiah 52:10

  The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

• Jeremiah 52:11

  He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

• Lamentations 4:3

  Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Lamentations 4:4

  The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

• Ezekiel 18:18

  As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 25:3

  and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

• Ezekiel 25:6

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel;

• Ezekiel 25:7

  therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 25:12

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;

• Ezekiel 25:15

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;

• Ezekiel 25:17

  I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

• Ezekiel 26:2

  Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

• Ezekiel 26:3

  therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

• Daniel 6:4

  Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

• Daniel 6:5

  Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

• Daniel 6:6

  Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.

• Daniel 6:7

  All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

• Daniel 6:8

  Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.

• Daniel 6:9

  Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

• Amos 1:11

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

• Micah 2:1

  Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

• Zechariah 7:10

  Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

• Zechariah 8:17

  and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

• Matthew 5:38

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

• Matthew 5:39

  But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• Matthew 5:40

  If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

• Matthew 5:41

  Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

• Matthew 6:15

  But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

• Matthew 14:3

  For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

• Matthew 14:4

  For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

• Matthew 18:28

  “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

• Matthew 18:29

  “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

• Matthew 18:30

  He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

• Matthew 18:31

  So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

• Matthew 18:32

  Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

• Matthew 18:33

  Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

• Matthew 18:34

  His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

• Matthew 18:35

  So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

• Matthew 26:52

  Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

• Mark 15:10

  For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

• Luke 6:29

  To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

• John 8:44

  You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

• John 18:22

  When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

• John 18:23

  Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

• Acts 23:12

  When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

• Acts 23:13

  There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

• Acts 23:14

  They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 1:30

  backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

• Romans 1:31

  without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

• Romans 1:32

  who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

• Romans 12:19

  Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

• 1 Corinthians 5:8

  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

• 1 Corinthians 14:20

  Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

• Galatians 5:20

  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

• Galatians 5:21

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

• Philippians 1:15

  Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

• Philippians 1:16

  The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

• Colossians 3:8

  but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:15

  See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• James 1:21

  Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

• James 2:13

  For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

• 1 Peter 2:1

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

• 1 Peter 3:9

  not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

• 1 John 2:9

  He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

• 1 John 2:11

  But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

• 1 John 3:10

  In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

• 1 John 3:13

  Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

• 1 John 3:14

  We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

• 1 John 3:15

  Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

• 1 John 4:20

  If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

• 3 John 1:10

  Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.