Psalms 140:5

American Standard Version (1901)

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {{Selah

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  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.
  • Ps 142:3 : 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
  • Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {{Selah
  • Ps 119:69 : 69 The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:85 : 85 The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.
  • Ps 119:110 : 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not gone astray from thy precepts.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
  • Ps 141:9-9 : 9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I withal escape.
  • Job 18:9 : 9 A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.
  • Ps 10:4-9 : 4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He will not require [it] . All his thoughts are, There is no God. 5 His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them. 6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. 10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones. 11 He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it. 12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.
  • Ps 17:8-9 : 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9 From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about. 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly. 11 They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth. 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. 13 Arise, O Jehovah, Confront him, cast him down: Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;
  • Ps 31:4 : 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.
  • Luke 11:53-54 : 53 And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things; 54 laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
  • Luke 20:20-23 : 20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor. 21 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest not the person [of any], but of a truth teachest the way of God: 22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them,
  • Ps 36:11 : 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

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