Psalms 41:6

6And when one comes to see me, ahe utters empty words,
while his heart gathers iniquity;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

Psalms 56:5-7

5 All day long they injure my cause;
Or  they twist my words

all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6They cstir up strife, they dlurk;
they ewatch my steps,
as they have waited for my life.
7For their crime will they escape?
fIn wrath gcast down the peoples, O God!

Psalms 57:6

6 They set ha net for my steps;
my soul was ibowed down.
They jdug a pit in my way,
but they have fallen into it themselves.  Selah

Psalms 59:3

3 For behold, they klie in wait for my life;
fierce men lstir up strife against me.
mFor no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,

Isaiah 29:21

21who by a word make a man out to be an offender,
and nlay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty plea oturn aside him who is in the right.

Jeremiah 18:18

18Then they said, pCome, let us make plots against Jeremiah, qfor the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. rCome, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 20:10

10 sFor I hear many whispering.
tTerror is on every side!
Denounce him! uLet us denounce him!”
say all my vclose friends,
wwatching for xmy fall.
Perhaps he will be deceived;
then ywe can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”

Luke 11:53-54

53As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 zlying in wait for him, aato catch him in something he might say.

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