Lexicon :: Strong's H7562 - rešaʿ

“Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people’s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin.

“As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness comes from wicked people.’ My hand will never be against you.

He keeps company with evildoers

and walks with wicked men.

Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding.

It is impossible for God to do wrong,

and for the Almighty to act unjustly.

Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,

and your righteousness, a son of man.[fn]

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;

evil cannot dwell with you.

Break the arm of the wicked, evil person,

until you look for his wickedness,

but it can’t be found.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness;

therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy

more than your companions.

Better a day in your courts

than a thousand anywhere else.

I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God

than live in the tents of wicked people.

The scepter of the wicked will not remain

over the land allotted to the righteous,

so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.

Do not let my heart turn to any evil thing

or perform wicked acts with evildoers.

Do not let me feast on their delicacies.

They eat the bread of wickedness

and drink the wine of violence.

“For my mouth tells the truth,

and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Ill-gotten gains do not profit anyone,

but righteousness rescues from death.

No one can be made secure by wickedness,

but the root of the righteous is immovable.

Wicked behavior is detestable to kings,

since a throne is established through righteousness.

I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

No one has authority over the wind[fn] to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

“You fast with contention and strife

to strike viciously with your fist.

You cannot fast as you do today,

hoping to make your voice heard on high.

“Isn’t this the fast I choose:

To break the chains of wickedness,

to untie the ropes of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free,

and to tear off every yoke?

We acknowledge our wickedness, LORD,

the iniquity of our ancestors;

indeed, we have sinned against you.

“But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have rescued yourself.

Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.

None of them will remain:

none of that crowd,

none of their wealth,

and none of the eminent[fn] among them.

“I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations; he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness.

“Now, son of man, say to your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice;

you have eaten the fruit of lies.

Because you have trusted in your own way[fn]

and in your large number of soldiers,

“Are there still[fn] the treasures of wickedness

and the accursed short measure

in the house of the wicked?