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

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they lie in wait for my soul.

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

They devise injustice; they have finished searching out a plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are unfathomable.

For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

Now you, therefore, together with the council, communicate to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make more specific inquiries concerning him; and we are ready to kill him before he comes near.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own souls.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are hidden against the unfortunate ones.

He lies low and crouches, and the poor unfortunate ones have fallen by his might.

like a lion that longs to tear, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit; without cause they have dug for my soul.

But I was like a docile lamb being led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.

Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your wrath from them.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

Moreover, that the Word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.