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32 The wicked watch for the righteous
    and seek to kill them.(A)

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They sit in ambush in the villages;
    in hiding places they murder the innocent.

Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;(A)
    they lurk in secret like a lion in its den;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
    they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.(B)

10 They stoop, they crouch,
    and the helpless fall by their might.

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24 but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night so that they might kill him,(A)

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The Question about Paying Tribute

20 So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

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47 Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him,(A) 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard.

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Jesus Heals the Man with Edema

14 On one occasion when Jesus[a] was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.1 Gk he

54 lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.(A)

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The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see whether he would cure on the Sabbath, so that they might find grounds to bring an accusation against him.

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10 For I hear many whispering:
    “Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
    All my close friends
    are watching for me to stumble.
“Perhaps he can be enticed,
    and we can prevail against him
    and take our revenge on him.”(A)

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12 The wicked plot against the righteous
    and gnash their teeth at them,(A)

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