Prov. xxviii. 26. Walketh wisely. Eph. v. 15. Col. iv. 5. Rom. xiii. 13. Honestly, or honourably. 1 Thess. iv. 12. To which may be added the several dispositions of the heart, and duties of life toward God and man, to which promises are made. CXVII. Promises to the good. 2 Chron. xix. 11. The Lord shall be with the good man. Ps. i. 3. Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Ps. xxxvii. 23. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. cxii. 5, 6. A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth; he will guide his affairs with discretion. He shall not be moved for ever. Prov. ii. 20, 21. Walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. xii. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord, but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. xiii. 22. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. xiv. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man shall be satisfied from himself.-Ver. 19. The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. Matt. xxv. 21. Christ will say, Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord. Rom. v. 7. For a good man some would even dare to die. EVIL MEN. CXVIII. Evil men. Ps. x. 15. O Lord, break thou the arm of the evil man. cxl. 1. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man. Prov. ii. 10-12. When wisdom entereth into thy heart, discretion shall preserve thee; to deliver thee from the way of the evil man. iv. 14, 15. Enter not in the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn away from it and pass away. xvii. 11. An evil man seeketh only rebellion. xxiv. 1. Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Ver. 19, 20. xxviii. 5. Evil men understand not judg ment. xxix. 6. In the transgression of an evil man is a snare. Matt. xii. 35. An evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth evil things. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Evil men shall wax worse and worse. PERVERSENESS. CXIX. Perverseness charged upon sinners. Deut. xxxii. 5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of God's children they are a perverse and crooked generation. 1 Kings viii. 47. We have sinned and done perversely, we have committed wickedness. Job ix. 20. If I say I am perfect, my mouth shall prove me perverse. xxxiii. 27. I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not. Jer. iii. 21. They have perverted their way, and have forgotten the Lord their God. xxiii. 36. They have perverted the words of the living God. Ezek. ix. 9. The city is full of perverseness, for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not. Matt. xvii. 17. Jesus said, O faithless and perverse generation. CXX. Threat. Numb. xxii. 32. The angel because thy way is perverse. said to Balaam, I went out to withstand thee, Prov. x. 9. He that perverteth his ways shall be known. xi. 3. The perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. xii. 8. He that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. xxviii. 6. Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Ver. 18. He that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Mic. iii. 9. Hear ye that pervert all equity. Ver. 12. Zion for your sakes shall be plough ed as a field. Perverse lips. Prov. iv. 24.-viii. 8.—xv. 4.-xix. 1.-xvii. 20. Isa. lix. 3. FROWARDNESS. CXXI. Threats against the froward. Deut. xxxii. 20. I will hide my face from them; they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. Job v. 13. The counsel of the froward is carried headlong. Ps. xviii. 26. With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure, and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 2 Sam. xxii. 27. Prov. iii. 32. The froward is abomination | lowing scriptures. Eccl. xi. 9. O young man, to the Lord. Ch. xi. 20. xvii. 20. He that hath a froward heart findeth no good. xxi. 8. The way of man is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his work is right. xxii. 5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. Isa. lvii. 17. I smote him, he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. CXXII. The righteous not froward. Ps. ci. 4. A froward heart shall depart from me. walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know, that for al! these things God will bring thee into judgment. Jer. iii. 17. Neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. Ch. ix. 14.—xi. 8.-xiii. 10.—xvi. 12.—xvii. 23.-xxiii. 17. REVOLTING. CXXIV. The wicked are revolters. Isa. i. 5. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more. xxxi. 6. The children of Israel have deep Prov. viii. 8. All the words of wisdom's mouth are in righteousness, there is nothing froward or perverse in them. Ch. vi. 12. Aly revolted. wicked man walketh with a froward mouth. See froward tongue, froward mouth. x. 31. The froward tongue shall be cut out. Ver. 32. The mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. Ver. 30. xvi. 28. A froward man soweth strife. See Ch. xvii. 20. STUBBORNNESS CXXIII. Stubbornness, the stiff-necked in their own ways, and ways of their own sight and eyes. Exod. xxxii. 9, 10. The Lord said, it is a stiff-necked people. Let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, that I may consume them. xxxiii. 3. 5. The Lord said, I will not go up in the midst of thee, lest I consume thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people. Deut. ix. 6. 13. Deut. xxix. 19, 20. If any say, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not spare him, but the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. 1 Sam. xv. 23. Stubbornness is an iniquity and idolatry. Jer. v. 23. This people hath a revolting and rebellious heart. Ch. vi. 28. Hos. ix. 15. I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. REBELLION. CXXV. Rebellion against God forbidden. Numb. xiv. 9. Rebel not against the Lord; the Lord is with us. Ps. lxxviii. 8. Josh. xxii. 29. The people said, God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following him. Threats. 1 Sam. xii. 15. If ye will rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers. xv. 23. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft; stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Neh. ix. 26, 27. They were disobedient and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and wrought great provocations. -Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hands of their enemies, who vexed them. Ps. Ixviii. 6. Rebels dwell in a dry land. cvii. 11, 12. Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsels of the Most High; therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. See Numb. xx. 24.— -xxvii. 14. Deut. i. 26. 43.-ix. 7. 23, 24. Jer. vii. 24. They hearkened not, nor in--xxxi. 27. clined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. Ver. 25, 26. Ver. 29. The Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. xxxi. 18. Ephraim said, Thou hast chastised me as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. Deut. x. 16. 2 Chron. xxx. 8. The same thing implied in the expression of walking after the counsel or the imagination of an evil heart; as in the fol Isa. i. 2. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.Ver. 9. Except the Lord had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and like unto Gomorrah. Ver. 19, 20. xxx. 1. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me : and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit.-Ver. 9. This is a rebellious people, lying children, that will not hear the law of the Lord. Isa. xlv. 9. Woe to him that striveth with his Maker. lxiii. 10. They rebelled and vexed his holy | on his adversaries; he reserveth wrath for his Spirit, therefore he was turned to be their enemies.-Ver. 8. Darkness shall pursue his enemy, and he fought against them. lxv. 2, 3. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts. A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face.-Ver. 6. I will recompense into their bosom their iniquities. Jer. iv. 17, 18. Enemies are against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee. Lam. i. 13. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, &c.-Ver. 18. The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. iii. 42, 43. We have transgressed and rebelled. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us. Ezek. xx. 8. They rebelled against me; then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them. Ver. 13. 21. 38. Dan. ix. 5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments. Hos. vii. 13, 14. Woe unto them that rebel against me. Ch. xiii. 16. ENEMIES, ADVERSARIES. CXXVI. Enemies, adversaries of the Lord. Deut. xxxii. 43. God will render vengeance to his adversaries. enemies. Heb. x. 27. Fiery indignation shall devour the adversaries, Ver. 13. God. Rom. v. 10. When we were enemies, CXXVII. Deliverance from enmity against we were reconciled by the death of his Son. Col. i. 21. You who were enemies in your mind by wicked works, hath he reconciled. THE WICKED. CXXVIII. God's threatenings against the wicked. Exod. xxiii. 7. I will not justify the wicked. Nah. i. 3. The Lord will not acquit the wicked. Deut. xxviii. 20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thy hand unto for to do; until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 2 Sam. iii. 39. The Lord will reward the doer of evil, according to his wickedness. Ps. xxviii. 4.-xciv. 23. Isa. xiv. 16. 2 Chron. vi. 23. Judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head. Job x. 3. God will not shine upon the counsel of the wicked. xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked, and rain it upon them. xxi. 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his 1 Sam. ii. 10. The adversaries of the Lord anger. shall be broken to pieces. Ps. xxxvii. 20. The enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs, into smoke shall they consume away. Ixviii. 1. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. (Ps. lxxxiii. 1, 2.) Ver. 21. God shall wound the head of his enemies. xcvii. 3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Isa. i. 24. I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies, saith the Lord. lix. 18. According to their deeds, he will repay fury to his adversaries. Ixiv. 2. Make thy name known to thine adversaries. Ixvi. 6. A voice of noise from the city, a voice of the Lord, that rendereth recompense to his enemies.-Ver. 14. The indignation of the Lord shall be known toward his enemies. Jer. xlvi. 10. This is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries, Nah. i. 2. The Lord will take vengeance Ver. 19, 20. God layeth up his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. xxvii. 13. This is the portion of a wicked man from God. See to ver. 22. For God shall cast upon him, and not spare. xxxvi. 6. God preserveth not the life of the wicked. Ps. v. 4. Thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickedness. Ps. xi. 5. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. ix. 5. Thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever. x. 15. Break thou the arm of the wicked. Ps. xxxvii. 17. The arms of the wicked shall be broken. xi. 6. Upon the wicked God shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup. Jer. xxiii. 19,-xxx, 23. xxviii. 3. Draw me not away with the wicked.-Ver. 4. Give them according to their deeds. Ver. 5. The Lord shall destroy them and not build them up. lxxiii. 18. Thou didst set the wicked in slippery places. lxxv. 8. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same; but tne dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. xciv. 3. Lord, how long shall the wicked triumph-Ver. 23. God shall bring upon them their own iniquity. cvii. 34. God turneth a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Jer. xii. 4. cxix. 119. Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross. cxxix. 4. The Lord hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. cxxxix. 19. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God. xxv. 31. God shall give them that are wicked to the sword. ́Ezek. xxxi. 11. xxxiii. 5. For their wickedness I have hid my face from this city. xliv. 9. Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of your kings? &c.—Ver. 11. I will set my face against you for evil. Hos. vii. 1, 2. I remember all their wicked ness. ix. 15. For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house. Joel iii. 13. Put ye in the sickle, &c. for their wickedness is great. Jonah i. 2. Cry against Nineveh, for their wickedness is come up before me. Hab. iii. 13. Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked. Zeph. i. 3. I will consume man and beast, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked. Mal. iv. 1. Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, cxl. 8. Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and wicked. the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith cxlv. 20. All the wicked will the Lord the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them destroy. neither root nor branch. Prov. xvi. 4. cxlvi. 9. The way of the wicked he turneth upside-down. cxlvii. 6. The Lord casteth the wicked down to the ground. Prov. iii. 33. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked. vi. 18. The Lord doth hate a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations. Ch. xii. 2. x. 3. God casteth away the substance of the wicked. xv. 8, 9. 26. The sacrifice of the wicked, the way of the wicked, the thoughts of the wicked, are an abomination to the Lord. Ch. xxi. 27. Ver. 29. The Lord is far from the wicked. xvi. 4. The Lord hath made the wicked for the day of evil. Mal. iv. 1. xxi. 12. God overthroweth the wicked for his wickedness. Isa. xiii. 11. Matt. xxiv. 51. The Lord of the evil servant shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ch. xviii. 32. 34. CXXIX. Threatening against the wicked, of evils as the consequences of wickedness under the providential government of God. Job iv. 8. They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same. Prov. xxii. 8. Gal. vi. 7, 8. viii. 22. The dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought. Ch. xxi. 28. xi. 20. The eyes of the wicked shall fail. xv. 20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days.-Ver. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid. See to ver, 31. xviii. 5, 6. The light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not Isa. xi. 4. With the breath of his lips, God shine. The light shall be dark in his tabershall slay the wicked. 2 Thess. ii. 8. xiv. 5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked. lvii. 21. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Ch. xlviii. 22.-lix. 8. Jer. i. 16. I will utter my judgments (saith the Lord) against them, for all their wicked ness. ii. 33. Thou hast taught the wicked ones thy ways.-Ver. 35. Behold, I will plead with thee, saith the Lord. vii. 12. See what I did to Shiloh, for the wickedness of my people. nacle. See to ver. 21. Ver. 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked. xx. 5. The triumphing of the wicked is short. See to ver. 29. Ver. 12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth.-Ver. 16. He shall suck the poison of asps. Ver. 29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. Ch. xxvii. 13 to 23. xxi. 7. Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?-Ver. xiv. 16. I will pour their wickedness upon 16. Ch. xxii. 18. Ch. xxiv. 24. They are exalted for a little, but are gone and brought them. low: they are taken out of the way, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. Ver. 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out. (Prov. xiii. 9.-xxiv. 20.) Ver. 30. The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction; they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Prov. xvi. 4. xxii. 15, 16. Hast thou marked the old way, which wicked men have trodden? Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overthrown with a flood. xxiv. 20. The worm shall feed sweetly on him, and he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. xxvii. 7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked. -Ver. 13. This is his portion. Ver. 14-17. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay (Hab. ii. 5.) He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the spoil. Ver. 18. He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.-Ver. 20, 21. Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. xxxi. 3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Ps. Ìiii. 5. xxxviii. 15. From the wicked their light is withholden. cvi. 18. A fire was kindled, the flame burned up the wicked. cxix. 155. Salvation is far from the wicked. cxli. 10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets. Prov. ii. 22. The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. 1 Sam. xii. 25. iv. 19. The way of the wicked is as darkness, they know not at what they stumble. v. 22. His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. x. 2. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing. Ver. 3. x. 7. The name of the wicked shall rot. Ver. 24. The fear of the wicked shall come upon him.-Ver. 27. His years shall be shortened. Ps. lv. 23. Ver. 30. The wicked shall not inhabit the earth. xi. 5. The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. Ver. 8. The righteous is delivered out of trouble; but the wicked cometh in his stead. Ver. 21. The wicked shall not be unpunished.-Ver. 31. The wicked and the sinner shall be recompensed in the earth. xii. 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness.-Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not. Ver. 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. Ver. 21. The wicked shall be filled with Ps. ix. 16. The wicked is snared in the mischief. work of his own hands. Ps. x. 2. Ver. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Ver. 26. The way of the wicked seduceth them. xiii. 5. A wicked man is loathsome, and xxxi. 17. Let the wicked be ashamed; let cometh to shame. them be silent in the grave. xxxii. 10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked. xxxiv. 21. Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. xxxvii. 10. Yet a little while and the wicked shall not be.-Ver. 17. The arms of the wicked shall be broken. Ver. 20. The wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of rams. Ps. lviii. 7. Ver. 6. sinner. Wickedness overthroweth the Ver. 25. The belly of the wicked shall want. xiv. 11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown. Ver. 17. A man of wicked devices is hated. Ver. 19. The wicked bow at the gates of the righteous. Ver. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness. xv. 6. In the revenues of the wicked is Ver. 28. The seed of the wicked shall be trouble. cut off. Ver. 35. I have seen the wicked great in power. Ver. 38. But the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Ver. 34. lv. 15. Let death seize upon the wicked. Iviii. 10. The righteous shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. xcii. 7. When the wicked spring as the grass; it is that they shall be destroyed for Ver. 11. Ps. xciv. 3. 13. ever. xviii. 3. When the wicked cometh, then cometh contempt. xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous. xxiv. 16. The wicked shall fall into mischief.-Ver. 20. The candle of the wicked shall be put out. xxvi. 26. The wickedness of the wicked shall be shewed before the whole congregation. |