Psalms 140:8

WEB

⁸LORD, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

KJV

⁸Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

BSB

⁸Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not promote their evil plans, lest they be exalted. Selah

FBV

⁸God, don't allow the wicked to get what they want—don't let them be successful in what they plan so they don't become proud. Selah.

Extra References

Psalms 10:2-3

²In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. ³For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:27

²⁷were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted; the LORD has not done all this.’”

Psalms 27:12

¹²Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Job 5:12-13

¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. ¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

2 Samuel 15:31

³¹Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Psalms 94:20-21

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? ²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.