Proverbs 24:15

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

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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.”

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

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.

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

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

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

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.”

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

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

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

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;

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

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

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

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

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.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

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.

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.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”

Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

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

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.

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

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

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.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

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.”

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.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

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

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

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

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