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

³⁰ evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

²² Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth `are' to those devising good,

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

¹¹ For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

¹¹ From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.

¹⁰ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought,

¹¹ And thou hast said: I go up against a land of unwalled villages, I go in to those at rest, dwelling confidently, All of them are dwelling without walls, And bar and doors they have not.

⁷ And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

⁷ And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy `is' in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

⁸ For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

¹⁰ As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,

¹¹ Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

¹² And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

¹³ For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

⁹ The thought of folly `is' sin, And an abomination to man `is' a scorner.

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

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

⁴⁴ And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou hast known all the evil that thy heart hath known, which thou didest to David my father, and Jehovah hath turned back thine evil on thy head,