<p class="poetry">who says to a king,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Worthless man&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and to nobles, &#8216;Wicked men,&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons of Eli were wicked men.<n id="1" /> They did not recognize the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s authority.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">The waves of death engulfed me;p> <p class="poetry">the currents<n id="1" /> of chaos<n id="2" /> overwhelmed me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The waves<n id="1" /> of death engulfed me,p> <p class="poetry">the currents<n id="2" /> of chaos<n id="3" /> overwhelmed me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">A worthless and wicked person<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">walks around saying perverse<n id="2" /> things;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">A wicked scoundrel<n id="1" /> digs up<n id="2" /> evil,p> <p class="poetry">and his slander<n id="3" /> is like a scorching fire.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">A crooked witness<n id="1" /> scorns justice,p> <p class="poetry">and the mouth of the wicked devours<n id="2" /> iniquity.p>

<p class="poetry">From you, O Nineveh,<n id="1" /> one has marched forth who plots evil against the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">a wicked military strategist.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They say,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;An awful disease<n id="2" /> overwhelms him,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will not even consider doing what is dishonest.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I hate doing evil;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will have no part of it.<n id="3" />p>

some evil people<n id="1" /> have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities,<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go and serve other gods&#8221; (whom you have not known before).<n id="3" />

Don&#8217;t consider your servant a wicked woman,<n id="1" /> for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.&#8221;p>

But some wicked men<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;How can this man save us?&#8221; They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it.<n id="2" />p>

Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household.<n id="1" /> He is such a wicked person<n id="2" /> that no one tells him anything!&#8221;p>

Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, &#8216;You cursed God and the king.&#8217; Then take him out and stone him to death.&#8221;p>

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude<n id="1" /> be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite<n id="2" /> and you do not lend<n id="3" /> him anything; he will cry out to the <sc>Lordsc> against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.<n id="4" />

Now, hand over the good-for-nothings<n id="1" /> in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wicked man<n id="1" /> named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite,<n id="2" /> happened to be there. He blew the trumpet<n id="3" /> and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;We have no share in David;p> <p class="poetry">we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!p> <p class="poetry">Every man go home,<n id="4" /> O Israel!&#8221;p>

The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, &#8220;Naboth cursed God and the king.&#8221; So they dragged him<n id="1" /> outside the city and stoned him to death.<n id="2" />

Lawless good-for-nothing men<n id="1" /> gathered around him and conspired<n id="2" /> against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man<n id="3" /> and could not resist them.