like a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in cover.
Proverbs 1:11 - Tree of Life Version Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason! 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 a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in cover.
For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
Do not lurk like the wicked near the dwelling of the righteous. Do not assault his home.
An accomplice of a thief is his own enemy. He hears the oath but says nothing.
There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose molars are knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.
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.”
For among My people are wicked men, watching like bait-layers lying in wait. They set a trap—they catch men.
The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.
So is fulfilled the word written in their Scripture, ‘They hated Me for no reason.’
So now you and the Sanhedrin serve notice to the commander to bring him down to you—like you are about to investigate his case more thoroughly. But we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.