"They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long."
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He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.
And they that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
\38:11\My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.
And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.