¹¹ For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

¹⁸ And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

¹⁹ But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.