Psalms 7:14
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
BSB
ASV
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
KJV
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
He travaileth with iniquity - All these terms show the pitch of envy, wrath, and malevolence, to which Saul had carried his opposition against David. He conceived mischief; he travailed with iniquity; he brought forth falsehood - all his expectations were blasted.
The sinner's head with its politics conceives mischief, contrives it with a great deal of art, lays the plot deep, and keeps it close; the sinner's heart with its passions travails with iniquity, and is in pain to be delivered of the malicious projects it is hatching against the people of God.
In three graphic pictures we see the slanderer's history. A woman in travail furnishes the first metaphor. "He travaileth with iniquity." He is full of it, pained until he can carry it out, he longs to work his will, he is full of pangs until his evil intent is executed. "He hath conceived mischief." This is the original of his base design. The devil has had doings with him, and the virus of evil is in him. And now behold the progeny of this unhallowed conception.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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James 1:15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave…
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Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
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Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
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You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.