¹⁸ A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood;

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

⁷ Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

¹⁷ Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

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

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.