Psalms 35:8

David prays that ruin would overtake his enemies, ensnaring them in their own traps.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 141:9–10Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Prov 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
• Ps 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Ps 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
• Isa 47:11Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
• Ps 7:15–16He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
• Prov 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• 1 Sam 18:17And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
• Ps 73:18–20Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
• 1 Sam 31:2–4And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul’s sons.
• Matt 27:3–5Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• 2 Sam 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
• 2 Sam 18:14–15Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
• 2 Sam 17:2–4And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
• Ps 64:7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

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