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Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked[ men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their[ own] blood; they lurk privily for their[ own] lives.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked[ are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them,[ and] to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Micah 7:2
The good[ man] is perished out of the earth: and[ there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
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Jeremiah 11:19
But I[ was] like a lamb[ or] an ox[ that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,[ saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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Acts 23:15
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
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Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net[ in] a pit,[ which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
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Matthew 26:3-4
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill[ him].
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Proverbs 30:14
[ There is] a generation, whose teeth[ are as] swords, and their jaw teeth[ as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from[ among] men.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage themselves[ in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward[ thought] of every one[ of them], and the heart,[ is] deep.
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Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion[ that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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Acts 25:3
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
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Psalms 10:8-10
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.He croucheth,[ and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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John 15:25
But[ this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.