Do not lurk like the wicked near the dwelling of the righteous. Do not assault his home.
Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked. Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.
The wicked lies in wait for the righteous, seeking to slay him.
All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Deliver me from workers of iniquity. Rescue me from bloodthirsty men.
Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason!
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers set up.
My people will live in a peaceful place, in secure dwellings, quiet resting places.
But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”
They plotted together in order that they might seize Yeshua by stealth and kill Him.
But the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush. He went into the headquarters and told Paul.
asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.
but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him.
As they went up the hill to the town, they found some girls going out to draw water, and they asked them, “Is the seer here?”