Proverbs 1:11

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. they lay...: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? matter: or, speech of...: Heb. to hide his snares They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. they...: or, we are consumed by that which they have throughly searched a diligent...: Heb. a search searched

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. are...: Heb. hide themselves He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. secretly: Heb. in the secret places He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He...: Heb. He breaketh himself by...: or, into his strong parts

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. the tree...: Heb. the stalk with his bread

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.