Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.