Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
- BSB May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
- NKJV Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap.
- NASB ¶May their table before them become a snare; And when they are at peace, may it become a trap.
- NLT Let the bountiful table set before them become a snare and their prosperity become a trap.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 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.
- Rom 11:8–10According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
- 1 Pet 2:8and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
- Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- Isa 8:14–15He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Mal 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
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