"She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men."
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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.
She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.