¹¹ For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

² Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

¹ Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

¹⁷ but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'

¹⁸ And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,

⁶³ saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;

⁶⁴ command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

¹⁶ Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

⁸ and having sent them to Beth-Lehem, he said, `Having gone -- inquire ye exactly for the child, and whenever ye may have found, bring me back word, that I also having come may bow to him.'

² And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these `are' the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

¹⁸ And, O Jehovah, cause me to know, and I know, Then Thou hast showed me their doings.

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.

⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',

⁵ and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

⁹ Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.

¹⁰ Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

⁶ We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst -- The son of Tabeal.

⁷ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!

⁴ They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from `being' a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

²⁰ For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

¹³ For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear `is' round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

²⁷ and having brought them, they set `them' in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,

²⁸ saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

² and lo, there came a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come, did roll away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it,

³ and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,

⁴ and from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.

⁵ And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;

⁶ he is not here, for he rose, as he said; come, see the place where the Lord was lying;

⁴⁶ and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.