Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

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

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 strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

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.

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

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.

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.

And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: {bloody...: Heb. man of blood}

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. {secretly: Heb. in the secret places}

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.

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.

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with {his} finger wrote on the ground, {as though he heard them not}.

Keep me from the snares {which} they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

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.

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed {himself} to him that judgeth righteously: {himself: or, his cause}

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

But those {that} seek my soul, to destroy {it}, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

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

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not {for} my transgression, nor {for} my sin, O LORD.

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

Which imagine mischiefs in {their} heart; continually are they gathered together {for} war.

And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in {the one of} the twain.

Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in {his} words.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way {that is} not good; he abhorreth not evil. {mischief: or, vanity}

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

And they watched {him}, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips {and} with a double heart do they speak. {a double...: Heb. an heart and an heart}