My enemies have set a trap for me. I am weary from distress. They have dug a deep pit in my path, but they themselves have fallen into it. Interlude
Parallel translations
- WEB They 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.
- KJV They 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.
- BSB They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
- NKJV They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah
- NASB They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They dug a pit before me; They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
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Enemies set a net and dug a pit, but they fall into it themselves. It celebrates God turning the wicked's schemes against them.
Overview
David's foes laid traps to bring him down, yet their own pit becomes their downfall. This poetic justice reflects the biblical principle that the wicked are caught in their own devices (Psalm 7:15). It assures believers that God can overturn the plots aimed at his people.
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- Ps 145:14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
- Ps 7:15–16He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
- Prov 28:10Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
- Mic 7:2The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
- 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 35:7–8For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 9:15–16The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
- Prov 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
- 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.
- Matt 26:37–38He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
- Ps 143:4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
- Ps 42:6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
- 1 Sam 23:22–26Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he deals very crafty.
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