"The enemy said, "I'll pursue them, I'll overtake them, I'll divide the spoil. I'll satisfy my anger on them, I'll draw my sword, and my hand will bring them to ruin.'

So come right now and curse this people for me, because there are too many of them for me to handle. Perhaps I'll be able to strike them down and drive them out of the land, since I know that whomever you bless is blessed and whomever you curse is cursed."

If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all.

Each helps his neighbor, saying to each other, "Be strong!'

Those living on earth will gloat over them, celebrate, and send gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those living on earth.

Commune

People from Ziph came up to Saul at Gibeah and informed him, "David is hiding with us in the strongholds in Horesh and on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon, isn't he?

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when this happens you make him twice as fit for hell as you are.

Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Of laying snares

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap. The trap has been broken, and we have escaped.

The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude

Who

The wicked say to themselves, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying "Who will hear us?"

They say, "The LORD cannot see, and the God of Jacob will not notice."

the Spirit asked me, "Do you see, Son of Man, what the elders of Israel's house are doing in secret, each in the chamber of his own carved idol? They keep saying, "God doesn't see us. The LORD has abandoned the land.'"

General references

because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.

Then Herod secretly called together the wise men, found out from them the time the star had appeared,