For I have heard the slander of many: fear {was} on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, {say they}, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, {saying}, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. {All...: Heb. Every man of my peace}

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

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

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

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

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

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

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}

Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

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

My times {are} in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}

Know therefore and understand, {that} from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince {shall be} seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. {be built...: Heb. return and be built} {wall: or, breach, or, ditch} {troublous: Heb. strait of}

And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. {So...: or, So shall I answer him that reproveth me in a thing}

Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

{Let} this {be} the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence {is} this wherein thou trustest?