The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

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

They help every one his neighbor; and every one'saith to his brother, Be of good courage.

And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.

Commune

Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.

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

Of laying snares

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

Who

He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who,'say they , doth hear?

And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land.

General references

For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

Then Herod privily called the Wise-men, and learned of them exactly what time the star appeared.