Lexicon :: Strong's H7489 - rāʿaʿ

Do not be agitated by evildoers;

do not envy those who do wrong.

In order to plant them,

you displaced the nations by your hand;

in order to settle them,

you brought disaster on the peoples.

Hide me from the scheming of wicked people,

from the mob of evildoers,

Make your way[fn] to the perpetual ruins,

to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.

My eyes look at my enemies;

when evildoers rise against me,

my ears hear them.

Who stands up for me against the wicked?

Who takes a stand for me against evildoers?

“Do not touch my anointed ones,

or harm my prophets.”

They angered the LORD at the Waters of Meribah,

and Moses suffered[fn] because of them,

Depart from me, you evil ones,

so that I may obey my God’s commands.

For they can’t sleep

unless they have done what is evil;

they are robbed of sleep

unless they make someone stumble.

If someone puts up security for a stranger,

he will suffer for it,

but the one who hates such agreements is protected.

The one who walks with the wise will become wise,

but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

A wicked person listens to malicious talk;[fn]

a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

One with many friends may be harmed,[fn]

but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

The one who plots evil

will be called a schemer.

Oh sinful nation,

people weighed down with iniquity,

brood of evildoers,

depraved children!

They have abandoned the LORD;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel;

they have turned their backs on him.

Band together,[fn] peoples, and be broken;

pay attention, all you distant lands;

prepare for war, and be broken;

prepare for war, and be broken.

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice

over[fn] Israel’s young men

and has no compassion

on its fatherless and widows,

for everyone is a godless evildoer,

and every mouth speaks folly.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

They will not harm or destroy each other

on my entire holy mountain,

for the land will be as full

of the knowledge of the LORD

as the sea is filled with water.

You will not join them in burial,

because you destroyed your land

and slaughtered your own people.

The offspring of evildoers

will never be mentioned again.

The earth is completely devastated;

the earth is split open;

the earth is violently shaken.

But he also is wise and brings disaster.

He does not go back on what he says;

he will rise up against the house of the wicked

and against the allies of evildoers.

“Tell us the coming events,

then we will know that you are gods.

Indeed, do something good or bad,

then we will be in awe[fn] when we see it.

Truth is missing,

and whoever turns from evil is plundered.

The LORD saw that there was no justice,

and he was offended.

“The wolf and the lamb will feed together,[fn]

and the lion will eat straw like cattle,

but the serpent’s food will be dust!

They will not do what is evil or destroy

on my entire holy mountain,”

says the LORD.

“For my people are fools;

they do not know me.

They are foolish children,

without understanding.

They are skilled in doing what is evil,

but they do not know how to do what is good.”

“However, my people wouldn’t listen to me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.

Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch,

their idols cannot speak.

They must be carried because they cannot walk.

Do not fear them for they can do no harm —

and they cannot do any good.

“The LORD named you

a flourishing olive tree,

beautiful with well-formed fruit.

He has set fire to it,

and its branches are consumed[fn]

with the sound of a mighty tumult.

Can the Cushite change his skin,

or a leopard his spots?

If so, you might be able to do what is good,

you who are instructed in evil.

Can anyone smash iron,

iron from the north, or bronze?

“You did more evil than your ancestors. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.

Sing to the LORD!

Praise the LORD,

for he rescues the life of the needy

from evil people.

Among the prophets of Jerusalem also

I saw a horrible thing:

They commit adultery and walk in lies.

They strengthen the hands of evildoers,

and none turns his back on evil.

They are all like Sodom to me;

Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.

“Do not follow other gods to serve them and to bow in worship to them, and do not anger me by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.

“Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I watch over them to build and to plant them” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

“My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have dropped him into the cistern where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.”

“Now pay attention: Today I am setting you free from the chains that were on your hands. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther.[fn] Look ​— ​the whole land is in front of you. Wherever it seems good and right for you to go, go there.”

Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.

Then they will cry out to the LORD,

but he will not answer them.

He will hide his face from them at that time

because of the crimes they have committed.

On that day —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

I will assemble the lame

and gather the scattered,

those I have injured.

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps

and punish those who settle down comfortably,[fn]

who say to themselves:

The LORD will do nothing ​— ​good or bad.

For the LORD of Armies says this: “As I resolved to treat you badly when your ancestors provoked me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Armies,