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Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
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Proverbs 1:18
but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
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Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then they said,“ Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries.Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Micah 7:2
The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.
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Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying,“ Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
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Acts 23:15
Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
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Psalms 35:7
For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
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Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
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Proverbs 30:14
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking,“ Who can see them?”They search out injustice, saying,“ We have accomplished a diligent search.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.
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Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.
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Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
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Psalms 56:6
They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.
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Acts 25:3
asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem— because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
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Psalms 10:8-10
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.
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John 15:25
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled:‘ They hated me without a cause.’