Jeremiah 5:26
"For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men."
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- Proverbs 1:11
"If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 64:5
"They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 18:22
"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."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 22:2
"Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 10:9
"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."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 19:10
"And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night."
Read in chapter → - Habakkuk 1:14
"And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?"
Read in chapter → - Luke 5:10
"And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 58:1
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
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