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Jeremiah 5:26
for wicked men live among My people. They watch like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
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Proverbs 1:18
but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then certain ones said,“ Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”Pay attention to me, Lord. Hear what my opponents are saying!Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your anger from them.
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Micah 7:2
Godly people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.
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Jeremiah 11:19
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:“ Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; 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
So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”
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Psalms 35:7
They hid their net for me without cause; they dug a pit for me without cause.
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Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage each other in an evil plan; they talk about hiding traps and say,“ Who will see them?”They devise crimes and say,“ We have perfected a secret plan.” The inner man and the heart are mysterious.
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Psalms 17:12
They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
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Proverbs 1:16
because their feet run toward trouble and they hurry to commit murder.
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Psalms 56:6
They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
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Acts 25:3
asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.
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Psalms 10:8-10
He waits in ambush near the villages; he kills the innocent in secret places. His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize the afflicted; he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.So he is oppressed and beaten down; the helpless fall because of his strength.
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John 15:25
But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.