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They hold fast to their evil purpose;
    they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see us?[a](A)

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  1. 64.5 Syr Jerome: Heb them

The arrogant have hidden a trap for me,
    and with cords they have spread a net,[a]
    along the road they have set snares for me. Selah(A)

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  1. 140.5 Or they have spread cords as a net

11 They think in their heart, “God has forgotten;
    he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”(A)

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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,(A) and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.(B)

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15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell[a] as yourselves.

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  1. 23.15 Gk Gehenna

12 Then he said to me, “Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

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Each one helps the other,
    saying to one another, “Take courage!”(A)

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11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
    let us wantonly ambush the innocent;(A)
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.(B)
13 We shall find all kinds of costly things;
    we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14 Throw in your lot among us;
    we will all have one purse”—

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We have escaped like a bird
    from the snare of the hunters;
the snare is broken,
    and we have escaped.(A)

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and they say, “The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob does not perceive.”(A)

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There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
    with sharp words[a] on their lips,
    for “Who,” they think,[b] “will hear us?”(A)

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  1. 59.7 Heb with swords
  2. 59.7 Heb lacks they think

13 Therefore you say, ‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through the deep darkness?(A)

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19 Then some Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “David is hiding among us in the strongholds of Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon.(A) 20 Now, O king, whenever you wish to come down, do so, and our part will be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”(B) 21 Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord for showing me compassion!(C) 22 Go and make sure once more; find out exactly where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is very cunning. 23 Look around and learn all the hiding places where he lurks and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you, and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

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Come now, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”(A)

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The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake;
    I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them.
    I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’(A)

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10 and the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and exchange presents, because these two prophets tormented the inhabitants of the earth.(A)

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