They lay wait. — Literally, he lieth in wait (used of the leopard in Hosea 13:7), as in the crouching down of fowlers: they have set the snare. The indefinite singular in the first clause brings before us the picture of isolated guilt, the plural that of confederate evil.
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Jeremiah 5:26
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.