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 snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Prov 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
• Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
• 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.
• Isa 47:11Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.
• 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 has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• 1 Sam 18:17Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
• Ps 73:18–20Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
• 1 Sam 31:2–4The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
• Matt 27:3–5Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• 2 Sam 18:14–15Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
• 2 Sam 17:2–4I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
• Ps 64:7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

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