¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

³¹ “Arise and attack a nation at ease,
    which lives in confidence,”
declares the Lord,
“a nation that has neither gates nor bars;^(A)
    its people live far from danger.
³² Their camels^(B) will become plunder,
    and their large herds^(C) will be spoils of war.
I will scatter to the winds^(D) those who are in distant places^[a](E)
    and will bring disaster on them from every side,”
declares the Lord.

²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(A)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(B) of Lebanon.^(C)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(D)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.
²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands^[a]
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up^(E) all the streams of Egypt.^(F)’

²⁹ Do not plot harm against your neighbor,
    who lives trustfully near you.^(A)
30 Do not accuse anyone for no reason—
    when they have done you no harm.

¹¹ If they say, “Come along with us;
    let’s lie in wait^(A) for innocent blood,
    let’s ambush some harmless soul;
¹² let’s swallow^(B) them alive, like the grave,
    and whole, like those who go down to the pit;^(C)
13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
    and fill our houses with plunder;
¹⁴ cast lots with us;
    we will all share the loot^(D)”—
¹⁵ my son, do not go along with them,
    do not set foot^(E) on their paths;^(F)
16 for their feet rush into evil,^(G)
    they are swift to shed blood.^(H)

⁹     like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;^(A)
    he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.^(B)