like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Proverbs 1:11 - King James Version - American Edition If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, 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: |
like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, 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 lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
The good 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 this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
and desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.