Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing {was} as to devour the poor secretly. {came...: Heb. were tempestuous}

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

But thine eyes and thine heart {are} not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do {it}. {violence: or, incursion}

And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve {were} with him,

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD. {from...: Heb. from mouth to mouth}

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: {but} I will consider thy testimonies.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Thou shalt not kill.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

{There is} a generation, whose teeth {are as} swords, and their jaw teeth {as} knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from {among} men.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. {made...: or, applied}

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}

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

And he said, Go and spy where he {is}, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, {he is} in Dothan.

Her princes within her {are} roaring lions; her judges {are} evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Gilead {is} a city of them that work iniquity, {and is} polluted with blood. {polluted: or, cunning for}

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, {or} with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn {for} my transgression, the fruit of my body {for} the sin of my soul? {body: Heb. belly}

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing {was} as to devour the poor secretly. {came...: Heb. were tempestuous}

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