If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

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

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

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 helpless.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

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

There is a generation whose teeth are as'swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;

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

Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.

asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Bible References

Let us lay

For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
There is a generation whose teeth are as'swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.
asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

Let us lurk

And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
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 helpless.
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;
But this cometh to pass , that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

General references

Thou shalt not kill.
And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
A man of violence enticeth his neighbor, And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

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