¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

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

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.

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

³ asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

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.'

²⁵ but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

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',

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.

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.

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.

¹⁴ A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.

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

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.

⁶ They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

⁷ For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

¹² His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

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.