Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

And you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was counseling him to do wickedly.

Therefore he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

and say: What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among the lions; among the young lions she nourished her cubs.

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion; he learned to catch prey, and he devoured men.

So she, having been instructed by her mother, said, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Immerser.

if the men of my tent have not said, who is there that is not satisfied with his flesh?

When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to slaughter those who walk uprightly.

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overflowing; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

And when it was day, some of the Jews made a pact and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

And there were more than forty who made this conspiracy.