Proverbs 1:11

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Summary

Proverbs 1:11

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

Let us lay

Let us lurk

General references

Exodus 20:13

Judges 9:25

Proverbs 16:29

Bible References

Let us lay

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

The words of the wicked are: 'Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

Let us lurk

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

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

but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

General references

'Thou dost not murder.

And the masters of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the hills, and rob every one who passeth over by them in the way, and it is declared to Abimelech.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.