He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,\par\tab And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Proverbs 1:11 - American Standard Version 2015 If they say, Come with us,\par\tab Let us lay wait for blood;\par\tab Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If they say, Come with us; let us lie in wait [to shed] blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause [and show that his piety is in vain]; American Standard Version (1901) If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; Common English Bible when they say: “Come with us. Let’s set up a deadly ambush. Let’s secretly wait for the innocent just for fun. Catholic Public Domain Version If they should say: "Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against the innocent, without cause. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: |
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,\par\tab And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
For without cause have they hid for me their net {\i in} a pit;\par\tab Without cause have they digged {\i a pit} for my soul.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,\par\tab They mark my steps,\par\tab Even as they have waited for my soul.
For their feet run to evil,\par\tab And they make haste to shed blood.
And these lay wait for their own blood;\par\tab They lurk privily for their own lives.
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood;\par\tab But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous;\par\tab Destroy not his resting-place:
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul;\par\tab He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.
There is a generation whose teeth are {\i as} swords, and their jaw teeth {\i as} knives,\par\tab To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.\par
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, {\i saying}, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
But {\i this cometh to pass}, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, {\b They hated me without a cause.}
Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.
asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.