Proverbs 1:11

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

“You shall not murder.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

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

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

“You shall not murder.

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

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

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.