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Psalm 140:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

who plan evil things in their minds and stir up wars continually.

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I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.

They stir up strife; they lurk; they watch my steps, as they hoped to take my life.

Even now they lie in wait for my life; the mighty stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,

How long will you assail a person, will you batter your victim, all of you, as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

Deceit is in the mind of those who plan evil, but those who counsel peace have joy.

For they are kindled like an oven; their heart burns within them; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

From you one has gone out who plots evil against the Lord, one who counsels wickedness.