For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.