⁸ One who plots to do evil Will be called a schemer.

³⁰ backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

²² Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

¹⁴ In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord.

¹¹ For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

¹¹ There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

¹⁰ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:

¹¹ and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

⁷ The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

⁷ However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁸ For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings?

⁹ Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus?

¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹ shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹² Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit [on thrones]:

⁹ The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

² For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.

¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

⁴⁴ The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father: therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head.