She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey],
And she increases the faithless among men.

If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

Do not say, “I will repay evil”;
Wait for the Lord, and He will save you.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;
Do not destroy his resting place;

The evil shall bow themselves before the good; and the ungodly shall wait at the doors of the righteous.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Many will wait for the face of the prince, and every one the friend to the man giving.

Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

“Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at my doorposts.