Do not lie in wait, O wrong one, Against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not ravage his resting place;
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.
The wrong one is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to slay him.
They stir up strife, they hide, They watch my steps, As they lie in wait for my life.
For look, they have lain in wait for my life; Mighty men assemble against me, For no transgression or sin of mine, O יהוה,
If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause.
Do not move the ancient boundary Which your fathers have set.
And My people shall dwell in a home of peace, and in safe dwellings, and in undisturbed resting places,
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.”
and plotted to seize יהושע by trickery and kill Him.
And when Sha’ul’s sister’s son heard of their ambush, he went and entered into the barracks and reported to Sha’ul.
asking a favour against him, that he would send him to Yerushalayim – making a plot along the way to kill him.
But their plot became known to Sha’ul. And they were watching the gates day and night, to kill him.
As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”