Lexicon :: Strong's G4189 - ponēria

He said to them, “The LORD would have to be with you if I would ever let you and your families go! Look out ​— ​you’re heading for trouble.

“Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.

“And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because[fn] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,[fn] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

“I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by fighting against me. Let the LORD who is the judge decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned.”

so the king said to me, “Why do you look so sad, when you aren’t sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.”

I was overwhelmed with fear

So I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned. Come, let’s rebuild Jerusalem’s wall, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: “Come, let’s meet together in the villages of[fn] the Ono Valley.” They were planning to harm me.

so I could return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of God’s house.

“Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women? ”

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

but establish the righteous.

The one who examines the thoughts and emotions[fn]

is a righteous God.

Repay them according to what they have done —

according to the evil of their deeds.

Repay them according to the work of their hands;

give them back what they deserve.

Let death take them by surprise;

let them go down to Sheol alive,

because evil is in their homes and within them.

They mock, and they speak maliciously;

they arrogantly threaten oppression.

He will pay them back for their sins

and destroy them for their evil.

The LORD our God will destroy them.

Do not let my heart turn to any evil thing

or perform wicked acts with evildoers.

Do not let me feast on their delicacies.

When he speaks graciously, don’t believe him,

for there are seven detestable things in his heart.

When there is a person whose work was done with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a person who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great wrong.

Here is a tragedy I have observed under the sun, and it weighs heavily on humanity:[fn]

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, an error proceeding from the presence of the ruler:

Remove sorrow from your heart,

and put away pain from your flesh,

because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.

Remove your evil deeds from my sight.

Stop doing evil.

“For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.

Woe to those enacting crooked statutes

and writing oppressive laws

“You were secure in your wickedness;

you said, ‘No one sees me.’

Your wisdom and knowledge

led you astray.

You said to yourself,

‘I am, and there is no one else.’

Their feet run after evil,

and they rush to shed innocent blood.

Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;

ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD;

remove the foreskin of your hearts,

men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.

Otherwise, my wrath will break out like fire

and burn with no one to extinguish it

because of your evil deeds.

The bellows blow,

blasting the lead with fire.

The refining is completely in vain;

the evil ones are not separated out.

Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies says:

I am about to refine them and test them,

for what else can I do

because of my dear[fn] people?[fn]

because both prophet and priest are ungodly,

even in my house I have found their evil.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

One basket contained very good figs, like early figs, but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they were inedible.

“But as for the bad figs, so bad they are inedible, this is what the LORD says: In this way I will deal with King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem ​— ​those remaining in this land or living in the land of Egypt.

“because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me ​— ​they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.

“The people coming to fight the Chaldeans will fill the houses with the corpses of their own men that I strike down in my wrath and fury. I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

“because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.

“The LORD can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.

Moab’s calamity is near at hand;

his disaster is rushing swiftly.

“The two kings, whose hearts are bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.