The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.

For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.

In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.

And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

Now when morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:

And he went away, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them.

And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.

So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.

And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and spake with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.

And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.