Lexicon :: Strong's H4284 - maḥăšāḇâ

When the LORD saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

“to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

“to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

“He has filled them with skill[fn] to do all the work of a gem cutter; a designer; an embroiderer[fn] in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen; and a weaver. They can do every kind of craft and design artistic designs.

“We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.

LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the hearts of your people, and confirm their hearts toward you.

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan. His father is a man of Tyre. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, with purple, blue, crimson yarn, and fine linen. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and to execute any design that may be given him. I have sent him to be with your artisans and the artisans of my lord, your father David.

He made skillfully designed devices in Jerusalem to shoot arrows and catapult large stones for use on the towers and on the corners. So his fame spread even to distant places, for he was wondrously helped until he became strong.

Then Esther addressed the king again. She fell at his feet, wept, and begged him to revoke the evil of Haman the Agagite and his plot he had devised against the Jews.

She said, “If it pleases the king and I have found favor with him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty

so that they[fn] achieve no success.

I know your thoughts very well,

the schemes by which you would wrong me.

The LORD frustrates the counsel of the nations;

he thwarts the plans of the peoples.

LORD my God, you have done many things —

your wondrous works and your plans for us;

none can compare with you.

If I were to report and speak of them,

they are more than can be told.

They twist my words all day long;

all their thoughts against me are evil.

How magnificent are your works, LORD,

how profound your thoughts!

The LORD knows the thoughts of mankind;

they are futile.

a heart that plots wicked schemes,

feet eager to run to evil,

The thoughts of the righteous are just,

but guidance from the wicked is deceitful.

Plans fail when there is no counsel,

but with many advisers they succeed.

The LORD detests the plans of the one who is evil,

but pleasant words are pure.

Commit your activities to the LORD,

and your plans will be established.

Many plans are in a person’s heart,

but the LORD’s decree will prevail.

Finalize plans with counsel,

and wage war with sound guidance.

The plans of the diligent certainly lead to profit,

but anyone who is reckless certainly becomes poor.

Let the wicked one abandon his way

and the sinful one his thoughts;

let him return to the LORD,

so he may have compassion on him,

and to our God, for he will freely forgive.

Their feet run after evil,

and they rush to shed innocent blood.

Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;

ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

“I spread out my hands all day long

to a rebellious people

who walk in the path that is not good,

following their own thoughts.

“Knowing[fn] their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see my glory.

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,

so that you will be delivered.

How long will you harbor

malicious thoughts?

Listen, earth!

I am about to bring disaster on these people,

the fruit of their own plotting,

for they have paid no attention to my words.

They have rejected my instruction.

for I was like a docile[fn] lamb led to slaughter.

I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:

“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;[fn]

let’s cut him off from the land of the living

so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

“So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look, I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.’

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him[fn] and pay no attention to all his words.”

“For I know the plans I have for you” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Therefore, hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman: The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,

residents of Hazor —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

has drawn up a plan against you;

he has devised a strategy against you.

Therefore, hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies he has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

The earth quakes and trembles

because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand:

to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

You saw all their vengefulness,

all their plots against me.

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

“During a time of peace,[fn] he will come into the richest parts of the province and do what his fathers and predecessors never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will make plans against fortified cities, but only for a time.