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Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.
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Proverbs 1:18
But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked wait in ambush for blood, But the mouth of the upright will rescue them.
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Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then they said,“ Come and let’s devise plans against Jeremiah. Certainly the Law is not going to be lost by the priest, nor advice by the wise, nor the divine word by the prophet! Come, and let’s strike at him with our tongue, and let’s pay no attention to any of his words.”Give Your attention to me, Lord, And listen to what my opponents are saying!Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good in their behalf, So as to turn Your wrath away from them.
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Micah 7:2
The godly person has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among mankind. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.
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Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,“ Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, And let’s cut him off from the land of the living, So that his name will no longer be remembered.”
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Acts 23:15
Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly; and as for us, we are ready to kill him before he comes near the place.”
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Psalms 35:7
For they hid their net for me without cause; Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
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Matthew 26:3-4
At that time the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the courtyard of the high priest named Caiaphas;and they plotted together to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a kind of person whose teeth are like swords And his jaw teeth like knives, To devour the poor from the earth And the needy from among mankind.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They make firm for themselves an evil purpose; They talk of setting snares secretly; They say,“ Who can see them?”They devise injustices, saying,“ We are ready with a well conceived plot”; For the inward thought and the heart of a person are deep.
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Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion that is eager to tear, And as a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, And they are quick to shed blood.
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Psalms 56:6
They attack, they lurk, They watch my steps, As they have waited to take my life.
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Acts 25:3
requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem( at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).
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Psalms 10:8-10
He sits in the lurking places of the villages; He kills the innocent in the secret places; His eyes surreptitiously watch for the unfortunate.He lurks in secret like a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the needy; He catches the needy when he pulls him into his net.Then he crushes the needy one, who cowers; And unfortunate people fall by his mighty power.
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John 15:25
But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled:‘ They hated Me for no reason.’