Psa 2:1, 10:2, 31:13, 35:20, Jer 11:18-19, Eze 11:2, Mat 21:46, 26:4-5 | ESV | STEP | Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain ?

Psalms 2:1

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

1 ^aWhy do ^bthe nations rage ^{▼▼Or nations noisily assemble}
and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 10:2

2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
let them ^dbe caught in the schemes that they have devised.

Psalms 31:13

13 For I ^ehear the whispering of many—
terror on every side!—
^fas they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.

Psalms 35:20

20 For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land
they devise words of deceit.

Jeremiah 11:18-19

18 The Lord made it known to me and I knew;
then you showed me their deeds.
19 But I was ^glike a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know ^hit was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
ⁱlet us cut him off from ^jthe land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.”

Ezekiel 11:2

2 And he said to me, ^k“Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Matthew 21:46

46 And ^lalthough they were seeking to arrest him, ^mthey feared the crowds, because they held him to be ⁿa prophet.

Matthew 26:4-5

4 ^oand plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 5 But they said, “Not during the feast, ^plest there be an uproar among the people.”