Psalms 140:5

The proud have hidden snares, nets, and traps along David's path. It portrays the cunning, premeditated nature of the threats against him.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
• Ps 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
• 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 119:85The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
• Luke 20:20–23They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
• Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
• Ps 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.
• Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
• Prov 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
• Ps 141:9–10Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
• Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
• Ps 10:4–12The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Ps 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
• Ps 36:11Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
• Ps 31:4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
• Ps 17:8–13Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
• Job 18:9A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
• Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

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