Proverbs 1:11

Modern English Version

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are found wicked men. They lie in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Proverbs 1:18

but they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright will deliver them.

Acts 25:3

asking as a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him along the way.

Acts 23:15

So now, with the Sanhedrin, tell the commander to bring him down to you tomorrow, pretending to inquire further concerning him. We are ready to kill him before he arrives.”

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and no one is upright among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; each hunts his brother with a net.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is brought to the slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.”

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Psalm 56:6

They stir up strife, they lurk, they watch my steps, when they wait for my life.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my life.

Psalm 17:12

like a lion eager to rip its prey, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

John 15:25

But that the word which is written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; plunder not his resting place,

Proverbs 29:24

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own soul; he vows to tell the truth, but discloses nothing.