The enemy said, 'I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.'

So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed."

If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

They help one another; one says to the other, 'Be strong!'

And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

Commune

Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, "Isn't David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Of laying snares

We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter's snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me. (Selah)

Who

He says to himself, "God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices."

Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say, "Who hears?"

Then they say, "The Lord does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it."

He said to me, "Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, 'The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!'"

General references

for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.