² For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

³ Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

¹⁴ That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

³⁵ Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

¹⁰ O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

³ Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

⁴ And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.

⁴ No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

²⁰ And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.

²¹ But crying out they said, To the cross with him!

³ Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

¹⁴ His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

² For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

⁴ So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

⁶ Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

⁶ But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

⁷ In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

⁸ He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.