Devine Scripture

Isaiah 32:7

Isaiah chapter 32 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Context

v.6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

v.7This passage

v.8But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 18:18

    Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

  • Matthew 26:4

    and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

  • Isaiah 1:23

    Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

  • Micah 7:2

    The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

  • Isaiah 61:1

    The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

  • Acts 6:11

    Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.