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The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms 119:110 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
  • BSB The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
  • NKJV The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.
  • NASB The wicked have set a trap for me, Yet I have not wandered from Your precepts.
  • NLT The wicked have set their traps for me, but I will not turn from your commandments.

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Quick answer

The wicked have set a snare for him, yet he has not strayed from God's precepts. Temptation and traps fail to turn him from the word.

Overview

Though enemies lay traps to lure him into sin or ruin, the psalmist has not wandered from God's precepts. His fidelity to the word is his protection against the schemes of the wicked. This deliverance from the snare points to the Lord who keeps His people from the evil one and guards their feet (Ps. 91:3; 2 Thess. 3:3).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 14

  • Ps 141:9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
  • Ps 140:5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
  • Ps 119:95The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
  • Ps 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • Ps 119:85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
  • Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
  • Ps 124:6–7Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
  • Ps 10:8–18He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
  • Dan 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
  • Ps 119:21Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
  • Luke 20:19–26And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
  • Ps 119:87They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
  • Prov 1:11–12If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 119:110 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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