Proverbs 1:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:18 : 18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
  • Prov 12:6 : 6 The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 “Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”
  • Jer 18:18-20 : 18 Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.” 19 Then I said,“LORD, pay attention to me. Listen to what my enemies are saying. 20 Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
  • John 15:25 : 25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place.”
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim. 9 He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net. 10 His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.
  • Ps 64:5-6 : 5 They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?” 6 They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

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  • Prov 1:12-19
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    12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

    13We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.

    14Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”

    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

    17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

    18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

    19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

  • Prov 1:10
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    10Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

  • Ps 94:21
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    21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

    5They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?”

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

  • Prov 4:15-17
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    15Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Prov 16:29
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    29A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

    8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

  • Prov 29:10
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    10Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For look, they wait to ambush me; powerful men stalk me, but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O LORD.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

  • Prov 28:17
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    17The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Nah 1:11
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    11From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked military strategist.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hide me from the plots of evil men, from the crowd of evildoers.

  • Josh 2:19
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    19Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

  • Job 18:10
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    10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Deut 19:11
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    11However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Jer 18:18
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    18Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”

  • Isa 29:21
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    21those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

  • Hos 6:9
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    9The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes!

  • Job 24:14
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    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them!