The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.
Parallel translations
- WEB The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
- KJV The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
- BSB The wicked have set a snare for me, but 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 snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
- Ps 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
- Ps 119:95The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
- Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
- Ps 119:85The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
- Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
- Ps 124:6–7Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
- Ps 10:8–18He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
- Dan 6:10When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
- Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
- Luke 20:19–26The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people — for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
- Ps 119:87They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
- Ps 119:51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
- Prov 1:11–12If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
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