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Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
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Proverbs 1:18
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then they said,“ Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. 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 man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
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Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,“ Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s 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, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
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Psalms 35:7
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
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Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say,“ Who will see them?”They plot injustice, saying,“ We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
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Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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Psalms 56:6
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
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Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
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Psalms 10:8-10
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
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John 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law,‘ They hated me without a cause.’