Why do the nations rage, and the peoples devise a vain thing?

Let us break and tear away their bonds, and cast away their cords from us.

For dogs have surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked have enclosed Me. They have pierced My hands and My feet.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause,

for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.

And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes,

And standing them in the midst, they asked, By what sort of power or by what sort of name have you done this?

Keep yourself far away from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah: Have you murdered and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Jehovah: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly Jehovah has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to get dishonest gain.

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

Truly, I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,

and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not charge them with this sin. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.