If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

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

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

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

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

For their Redeemer is strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.

For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!