[This translation omits this verse.]

The words of ungodly men are crafty, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul.

They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep,

For among My people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].

For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you are going to determine more accurately the things concerning him; but we, before he comes near, are prepared to kill him."

asking for favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem--while planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret [places].

For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare; without a cause they have reproached my soul.

But I, as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, did not know. Against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they [meant] for me. Remember that I stood before Your face, to speak good concerning them, to turn away Your wrath from them.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were assembled into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

and plotted to take Jesus by guile and kill Him.

But [this was] so that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without cause.'