CHAP. XV. Evil Men.-Perverseness.-Frowardness. 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. 231 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. 33. The angel said to Balaam, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse. Prov. x. 9. He that is perverse in 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 Prov. ii. 10-12. When wisdom enter-rich. eth into thine 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 judgment. xxix. 6. In the transgression of an evil man is a snare. Matt. xii. 35. An evil man out of the 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 ploughed 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 evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth shew thyself pure, and with the froward evil things. thou wilt shew thyself froward. 2 Sam. xxii. 27. 2 Tim. iii. 9. 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 nothing. G g 232 Stubbornness.-Revolting.-Rebellion. CHAP. XV. dom's mouth are righteousness, there evil heart. Ch. ix. 14.—xi. 8.—xiii. 10. is nothing froward or perverse in them.-xvi. 12.-xviii. 23.-xxiii. 17. Ch. vi. 12. A wicked man walketh with a froward mouth. See froward tongue, froward mouth. Prov. 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 as iniquity and idolatry. Jer. vii. 24. They turned not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil hearts, 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. REVOLTING. CXXIV. The wicked are revolters. Isa. i. 5. Why will ye be stricken any more? will revolt more and more. ye xxxi. 6. The children of Israel have deeply revolted. 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. lxviii. 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. Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff-necked and un--xxxi. 27. circumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. Deut. x. 16. 2 Chron. xxx. 8. The same thing implied in the expressions of walking after the counsel or the imagination of an evil heart; as in the following scriptures. Eccl. xi. 9. O young man, walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Jer. iii. 17. Neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their 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. Wo 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 Spirit, therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. lxv. 2, 3. I have spread out mine hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that is 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 ways 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 commandments. 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 mine anger against them. Ver. 13. 21. 38. city, a voice of the Lord, that render eth 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 ven. geance on his adversaries; he reserveth wrath for his enemies.-Ver. 8. Darkness shall pursue his enemies. Heb. x. 27. Fiery indignation shall devour the adversaries. Ver. 13. CXXVII. Deliverance from enmity against God. Rom. v. 10. When we were enemies, we were reconciled by the death of his Son. Col. i. 21. You who were enemies in your minds 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 Dan. ix. 5. We have sinned, and have upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, committed iniquity, and have done wick-in all that thou settest thine hand unto edly, and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments. Hos. vii. 13. Woe unto them that rebel against me. Ch. xiii. 18. ENEMIES, ADVERSARIES. CXXVI. Enemies, adversaries of the Lord. Deut. xxxii. 43. God will render vengeance to his adversaries. 1 Sam. ii. 10. The adversaries of the Lord 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. lxviii. 1. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. (Ps. lxxxiii. 1, 2.) Ver. 21. God shall wound the head of his enemies. 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 anger. xcvii. 3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Ver. 19, 20. God layeth up his iniIsa. i. 24. I will ease me of mine ad-quity for his children; he rewardeth versaries, and avenge me of mine ene- him, and he shall know it. His eyes mies, saith the Lord. shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. lix. 18. According to their deeds, he will repay, fury to his adversaries. lxiv. 2. Make thy name known to thine adversaries. lxvi. 6. A voice of noise from the xxvii. 13. This is the portion of a wicked man from God. See to ver. 22. For God shall cast upon him, and shall not spare. Job 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 memory 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 ra nares, fire and brimstone, and an 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 the 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. cxl. 8. Grant not, O Lord, the desire of the wicked. cxlv. 20. All the wicked will the Lord destroy. cxlvi. 9. The way of the wicked he turneth upside down. cxlvii. S. 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 an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations. Ch. xii. 2. x. 3. God casteth away the substance of the wicked. IV. 8, 9. 26. The sacrifice of the wicked, the way of the wicked, the thoughts of the wicked, are an abomination to the Lord. Ver. 21. 27. Ver. 29. The Lord is far from the wicked. vi. 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. Isa. xi. 4. With the breath of his lips, God shall slay the wicked. 2 Thess. ii. 8. xiv. 5. staff of the lvii. 21. The Lord hath broken the wicked. 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 wickedness. 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. xiv. 16. I will pour their own wickedness upon them. 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 wickedness. 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 woundest 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, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Prov. xvi. 4. 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 travelleth with pain all his days.-Ver. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid. See to ver. 31. Job xviii. 5, 6. The light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle. 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. 16. Ch. xxii. 18. Ch. xxiv. 24. They are exalted for a little, but are gone and brought 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. 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 upon 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. Job xxxi. 3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Ps. liii. 5. xxxviii. 15. From the wicked their light is withholden. Ps. ix. 16. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Ps. x. 2. Ver. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. xxxi. 17. Let the wicked be ashamed; let 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 just 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. 28. The seed of the wicked shall be 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. wicked. lviii. 10. feet in the xcii. 7. Let death seize upon the The righteous shall wash his blood of the wicked. When the wicked spring up as grass; it is that they may be destroyed for ever. Ver. 11. Ps. xciv. 3. 13. 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. |