Do not lie in wait at the abode of the just, do not ravage their dwelling places;
Keep me, Lord, from the clutches of the wicked; preserve me from the violent, who plot to trip me up.
The wicked spies on the righteous and seeks to kill him.
All the day they foil my plans; their every thought is of evil against me.
Deliver me from evildoers; from the bloodthirsty save me.
do not go if they say, “Come along with us! Let us lie in wait for blood, unprovoked, let us trap the innocent;
Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up.
My people will live in peaceful country, in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.
Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
and they consulted together to arrest Jesus by treachery and put him to death.
The son of Paul’s sister, however, heard about the ambush; so he went and entered the compound and reported it to Paul.
as a favor to have him sent to Jerusalem, for they were plotting to kill him along the way.
but their plot became known to Saul. Now they were keeping watch on the gates day and night so as to kill him,
As they were going up the path to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and they asked them, “Is the seer in town?”