Verse 15

Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 They are going up in the ascent of the city, and have found young women going out to draw water, and say to them, `Is the seer in this `place'?'
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod, 19 and Nob, the city of the priests, he hath smitten by the mouth of the sword, from man even unto woman, from infant even unto suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the mouth of the sword.
  • 1 Sam 23:20-23 : 20 And, now, by all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down, and ours `is' to shut him up into the hand of the king.' 21 And Saul saith, `Blessed `are' ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me; 22 go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his foot is; who hath seen him there? for `one' hath said unto me, He is very subtile. 23 And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'
  • 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 37:32 : 32 The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.
  • Ps 59:3 : 3 For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
  • Isa 32:18 : 18 And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.
  • 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.
  • Matt 26:4 : 4 and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',
  • Acts 9:24 : 24 and their counsel against `him' was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,
  • Acts 23:16 : 16 And the son of Paul's sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul,
  • 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.