Proverbs 1:18
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
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Referenced Verses
- Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
- Ps 7:14-16 : 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Ps 9:16 : 16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
- Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
- Prov 5:22-23 : 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. 23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
- Prov 9:17-18 : 17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant." 18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Prov 28:17 : 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
- Matt 27:4-5 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
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19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
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11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
- Prov 1:16-172 verses80%
16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
- Jer 5:26-272 verses79%
26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
- Ps 10:8-92 verses78%
8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
- Ps 64:4-63 verses78%
4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
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6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
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15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
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10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.
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12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
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32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
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40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
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2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
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7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
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2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
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16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
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22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
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15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
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8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
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9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
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6 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
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21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
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10 The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
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9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
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14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.
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1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
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5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
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20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
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14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
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22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
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15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
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23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.