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Jeremiah 5:26
“ Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.
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Proverbs 1:18
These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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Jeremiah 18:18-20
They said,“ Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”Listen to me, Lord; hear what my accusers are saying!Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
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Micah 7:2
The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.
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Jeremiah 11:19
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying,“ Let us destroy the tree and 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 then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.”
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Psalms 35:7
Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me,
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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, whose name was Caiaphas,and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.
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Proverbs 30:14
those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say,“ Who will see it?”They plot injustice and say,“ We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.
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Psalms 17:12
They are like a lion hungry for prey, like a fierce lion crouching in cover.
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Proverbs 1:16
for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.
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Psalms 56:6
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, hoping to take my life.
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Acts 25:3
They requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
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Psalms 10:8-10
He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for his victims;like a lion in cover he lies in wait. He lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength.
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John 15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:‘ They hated me without reason.’