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In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

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

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?