² For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

⁷ Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

³ Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

¹⁰ said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

³ Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',

⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

⁹ And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, `Bring nigh the ephod.'

²⁰ Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,

²¹ but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'

³ On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

¹⁴ Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

² Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

⁴ To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

⁵ They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

⁶ They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep.

⁴ Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

⁶ and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who `are' in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.

⁷ In the first month -- it `is' the month of Nisan -- in the twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, hath one caused to fall Pur (that `is' the lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, `to' the twelfth, it `is' the month of Adar.

⁸ Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.