Psalms 57:6

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 145:14 : 14 Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that are bowed down.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 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
  • 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.
  • Ps 143:4 : 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
  • Prov 28:10 : 10 Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
  • 1 Sam 23:22-26 : 22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. 24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. 25 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
  • Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {{Higgaion. Selah
  • Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 140:5
    84%

    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {{Selah

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    83%

    7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.

    8Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

  • Ps 56:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

    7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

  • Ps 9:15
    80%

    15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Ps 17:11
    79%

    11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

  • Ps 59:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

    4They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.

  • Jer 18:22
    78%

    22Let 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 7:5
    78%

    5Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. {{Selah

  • Ps 54:3
    77%

    3For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. {{Selah

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

    10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I withal escape.

  • Lam 3:53
    77%

    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

  • Ps 142:3
    77%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.

  • Ps 71:10
    76%

    10For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

  • Ps 119:85
    76%

    85The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.

  • Ps 63:9
    76%

    9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Ps 31:4
    75%

    4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.

  • Ps 143:3
    75%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Ps 38:16
    75%

    16For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  • Job 19:6
    75%

    6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Job 30:13
    75%

    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.

  • Lam 3:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

    12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

  • Ps 22:16
    75%

    16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Ps 7:15
    75%

    15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

  • Ps 70:2
    75%

    2Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

  • Lam 3:9
    75%

    9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

  • Ps 3:2
    74%

    2Many there are that say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. {{Selah

  • Ps 86:14
    74%

    14O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them.

  • Ps 18:38
    74%

    38I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.

  • Ps 35:4
    74%

    4Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.

  • Ps 88:6
    74%

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

  • Ps 38:12
    74%

    12They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me] ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 25:15
    74%

    15Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; For he will pluck my feet out of the net.

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    74%

    6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

  • Job 18:10
    74%

    10A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 57:4
    74%

    4My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Job 16:13
    74%

    13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • Ps 73:18
    74%

    18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

  • Job 18:8
    74%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

  • Ps 40:14
    74%

    14Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

  • Jer 18:20
    73%

    20Shall 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.

  • Ps 118:13
    73%

    13Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.