They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
Proverbs 1:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us wantonly ambush the innocent; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If they say, Come with us; let us lie in wait [to shed] blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause [and show that his piety is in vain]; American Standard Version (1901) If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; Common English Bible when they say: “Come with us. Let’s set up a deadly ambush. Let’s secretly wait for the innocent just for fun. Catholic Public Domain Version If they should say: "Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against the innocent, without cause. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: |
They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
They stir up strife; they lurk; they watch my steps, as they hoped to take my life.
yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!
The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright delivers them.
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;
To be a partner of a thief is to hate one’s own life; one hears the victim’s curse but discloses nothing.
there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!”
For the wicked are found among my people. They lie in wait like hunters; destroyers, they catch humans.
The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.
It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Now then, you and the council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you, on the pretext that you want to make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready to do away with him before he arrives.”
and requested, as a favor to them against Paul, to have him transferred to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.