¹¹ If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

¹⁸ But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

⁶ The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, But the speech of the upright rescues them.

³ asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

¹⁵ Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

²⁵ But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

³ Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

⁴ They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

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.

¹⁸ 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

¹⁹ Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And their jaws like knives, To devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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.

⁶ They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

⁷ For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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.

¹⁰ The helpless are crushed, they collapse, They fall under his strength.