Proverbs 1:11

The Scriptures 1998

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Cross References

Psalm 17:12

Like a lion who is eager to tear his prey, And as a young lion crouching in cover.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; Without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 56:6

They stir up strife, they hide, They watch my steps, As they lie in wait for my life.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wrong are, “Lie in wait for blood,” But the mouth of the straight delivers them.

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait, O wrong one, Against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not ravage his resting place;

Proverbs 29:24

He who shares with a thief hates his own life; He hears an oath, but does not report.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

Jeremiah 11:19

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

Jeremiah 5:26

‘For among My people are found wrong men who lie in wait as one who sets snares. They have set up a trap, they catch men.

Micah 7:2

The kind one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net.

John 15:25

but...that the word might be filled which was written in their Torah, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Acts 23:15

“Now, then, you, with the council, inform the commander to have him brought down to you tomorrow, as intending to examine more exactly all about him. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Acts 25:3

asking a favour against him, that he would send him to Yerushalayim – making a plot along the way to kill him.