The words of the wicked ones lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright ones shall deliver them.
The thoughts of the righteous ones are justice; the counsels of the wicked ones are deceit.
A rod of pride is in the mouth of a foolish one, but the lips of the wise ones shall keep them.
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to pour out innocent blood. Thoughts of iniquity are their thoughts; wasting and ruin are in their ways.
For among My people are found wicked ones. They lie in wait, as the crouching of fowlers they set traps, they catch men.
And it becoming day, some of the Jews making a conspiracy bound themselves by an oath, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they should kill Paul.
Now, therefore, you with the sanhedrin inform the chiliarch, so that tomorrow he may bring him down to you, as being about to more accurately determine the things about him. And before his drawing near, we are ready to kill him.
asking a favor against him, so as he might send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the way.