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Proverbs 1:11

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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

If they say {H559}, Come {H3212} with us, let us lay wait {H693} for blood {H1818}, let us lurk {H6845} privily for the innocent {H5355} without cause {H2600}:

Suppose they say, "Come with us: we'll ambush somebody and kill him, we'll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 1:18 (5 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 5:26 (5 votes)

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

  • Proverbs 12:6 (4 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 18:18 (3 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • Jeremiah 18:20 (3 votes)

    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.

  • Proverbs 1:16 (2 votes)

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

  • Psalms 64:5 (2 votes)

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