Proverbs 1:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:18 : 18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
  • Prov 12:6 : 6 The words of the wicked `are': `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 And I `am' as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.
  • Jer 18:18-20 : 18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words. 19 Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me. 20 Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',
  • John 15:25 : 25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, 9 He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net. 10 He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.
  • Ps 64:5-6 : 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

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  • Prov 1:12-19
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    12We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,

    13Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,

    14Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'

    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

    16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

    17Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

    19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

    5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

    9He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

  • Prov 4:15-17
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    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

    16For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.

  • Prov 16:29
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    29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

    8Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

  • Jer 18:22
    72%

    22A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

  • Prov 29:10
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    10Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked `are': `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

  • Prov 28:17
    71%

    17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

  • Mic 7:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.

    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Nah 1:11
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    11From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

  • Josh 2:19
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    19and it hath been, any one who goeth out from the doors of thy house without, his blood `is' on his head, and we are innocent; and any one who is with thee in the house, his blood `is' on our head, if a hand is on him;

  • Job 18:10
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    10Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • Deut 19:11
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    11`And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him -- the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities,

  • Ps 37:14
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    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

  • Jer 18:18
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    18And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • Hos 6:9
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    9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

  • Job 24:14
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    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness.