Psalms 35:20

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

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

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.

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

Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today.”

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

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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;

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

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.

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

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

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

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;

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”

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

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

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

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

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.

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

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

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

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

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

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

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.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

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

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

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

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.

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

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

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

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

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

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

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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

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

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

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.”

Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

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

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, 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.

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.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.