Isaiah 32:7
Good News Translation
A stupid person is evil and does evil things; he plots to ruin the poor with lies and to keep them from getting their rights.

New Revised Standard Version
The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Contemporary English Version
Cruel people tell lies--they do evil things, and make cruel plans to destroy the poor and needy, even when they beg for justice.

New American Bible
The deceits of the deceiver are evil, he plans devious schemes: To ruin the poor with lies, and the needy when they plead their case.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

instruments

Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Isaiah 5:23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men. . . .

Micah 2:11 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Matthew 26:14-16,59,60 Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests. . . .

deviseth

Psalm 10:7-10 His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow. . . .

Psalm 64:4-6 To shoot in secret the undefiled. . . .

Psalm 82:2-5 How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? . . .

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Matthew 26:4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

lying

Isaiah 59:3,4 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. . . .

1 Kings 21:10-14 And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die. . . .

Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. . . .

the needy speaketh right.

Context
A Righteous King
6For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty. 7The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.8But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:95
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.

Isaiah 5:23
That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Isaiah 11:4
But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Isaiah 26:10
Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

Isaiah 29:21
That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Isaiah 59:15
And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.

Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Daniel 12:10
Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Micah 7:3
The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Isaiah 32:6
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