Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. {held...: or, took counsel}

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, {saying},

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, {thou} child of the devil, {thou} enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

{Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? {Yea...: Heb. Yea, because, etc.}

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

{There are} many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. {under a curse: or, with an oath of execration}

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, {which} they are not able {to perform}.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. {plotteth: or, practiseth}

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. {decree: or, interdict}

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. {held...: or, took counsel}

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened {bread} of sincerity and truth. {the feast: or, holyday}

Lay not wait, O wicked {man}, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Wickedness {is} in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

The thoughts of the righteous {are} right: {but} the counsels of the wicked {are} deceit.

For, lo, the wicked bend {their} bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. {privily: Heb. in darkness}

The instruments also of the churl {are} evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. {the needy...: or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment}

But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he {was} faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.