Psalms 31:13

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

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

and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

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

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

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

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

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

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

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

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.”

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.”

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

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.”

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

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

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

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

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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.

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

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

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

If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

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

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.

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

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

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.

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

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

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

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.”

They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.