Psalms 9:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 57:6 : 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made 16 His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
  • Ps 35:8 : 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.
  • Ps 37:15 : 15 But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.
  • Ps 94:23 : 23 And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 9:16-17
    2 verses
    81%

    16The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

    17The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

  • Ps 57:6
    80%

    6They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Ps 7:15
    80%

    15He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

  • Job 18:7-10
    4 verses
    80%

    7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

    9His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Ezek 19:8
    77%

    8Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

    8Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Ps 140:5
    76%

    5The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Hab 1:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

    16For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

    17For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

    10Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.

  • Jer 18:22
    75%

    22Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Prov 1:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

    17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

  • Ps 17:11
    73%

    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ps 10:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

    10The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

  • Ps 73:18
    73%

    18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • Jer 5:26
    73%

    26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

  • Amos 9:2
    73%

    2Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

  • Rom 11:9
    72%

    9And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

  • Ps 5:10
    72%

    10Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • Prov 28:10
    72%

    10Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

  • Eccl 10:8
    72%

    8He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

  • Ps 59:12
    72%

    12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Ps 119:85
    72%

    85The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.

  • Prov 5:22
    72%

    22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

  • Isa 24:17
    72%

    17Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

  • Prov 11:6
    72%

    6The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

  • Ps 69:22
    72%

    22Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

  • Rom 3:15
    71%

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • Ps 64:8
    71%

    8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • Ps 140:10
    71%

    10Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • Ps 10:2
    71%

    2The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

  • Isa 14:15
    71%

    15But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • Ps 18:38
    71%

    38I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Isa 59:7
    71%

    7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ps 149:8
    71%

    8To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

  • Ps 55:15
    71%

    15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Isa 5:14
    71%

    14For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.