Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

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.

Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.