Pro 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause {some} to fall.
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? {Is} God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
Their feet {are} swift to shed blood:
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Also, {that} the soul {be} without knowledge, {it is} not good; and he that hasteth with {his} feet sinneth.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause {some} to fall.
As righteousness {tendeth} to life: so he that pursueth evil {pursueth it} to his own death.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that {were} with him.
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
And it was {so}, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, {and cast them} into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that {were} with him.
And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. {the hall...: or, Pilate's house}
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
In whose hands {is} mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. {full...: Heb. filled with}
They run and prepare themselves without {my} fault: awake to help me, and behold. {help: Heb. meet}
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: