They make evil plans as they lie in bed; nothing they do is good, and they never reject anything evil.

See where evil people have fallen. There they lie, unable to rise.

The wicked plot against good people and glare at them with hate.

But the Lord laughs at wicked people, because he knows they will soon be destroyed.

When David heard that Saul was planning to attack him, he said to the priest Abiathar, "Bring the ephod here."

May the LORD judge which one of us is wrong! May he punish you for your action against me, for I will not harm you in the least.

You know the old saying, 'Evil is done only by evil people.' And so I will not harm you.

By the living LORD," David continued, "I know that the LORD himself will kill Saul, either when his time comes to die a natural death or when he dies in battle.

He will give you and Israel over to the Philistines. Tomorrow you and your sons will join me, and the LORD will also give the army of Israel over to the Philistines."

The fighting was heavy around Saul, and he himself was hit by enemy arrows and badly wounded.

He said to the young man carrying his weapons, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that these godless Philistines won't gloat over me and kill me." But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

The LORD will punish Joab for those murders, which he committed without my father David's knowledge. Joab killed two innocent men who were better men than he: Abner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, commander of the army of Judah.

But Esther went to the king, and the king issued written orders with the result that Haman suffered the fate he had planned for the Jews---he and his sons were hanged from the gallows.

I will punish your children and rub your faces in the dung of the animals you sacrifice---and you will be taken out to the dung heap.

"In my covenant I promised them life and well-being, and this is what I gave them, so that they might respect me. In those days they did respect and fear me.