Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;
New American Standard Bible
Let us
Let us
King James Version
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Holman Bible
Let’s set an ambush
Let’s attack some innocent person
International Standard Version
If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all.
A Conservative Version
If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
American Standard Version
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
Amplified
If they say, “Come with us;
Let us lie in wait to shed blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
Bible in Basic English
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
Darby Translation
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Julia Smith Translation
If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
King James 2000
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
Lexham Expanded Bible
If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:
NET Bible
If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
New Heart English Bible
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
The Emphasized Bible
If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;
Webster
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
World English Bible
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Youngs Literal Translation
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to shun all inducements to
Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of designs of the wicked
Character » Of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Character of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Murder » The wicked » Encourage others to commit
Profit » Those that profit from violence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
10 My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 1:18
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Psalm 10:8-10
He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.
Psalm 17:12
their likeness is like a lion that longs to tear, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.
Psalm 56:6
They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.
Psalm 64:5-6
They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.
Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
Micah 7:2
The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
John 15:25
But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their Law, "They hated Me without a cause."
Acts 23:15
Now therefore you, with the sanhedrin, inform the chiliarch that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly regarding him. And we are ready to put him to death before he comes near.
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.