Psalms 57:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

They have prepared a net for my ste; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

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  • Ps 145:14 : 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be 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, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid 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 righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the uight shall have good things in possession.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbour seadeth a net for his feet.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good 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 very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
  • 1 Sam 23:22-26 : 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, 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 subtilly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the 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 throughout 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 plain on the south of Jeshimon. 25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a 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 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 violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
  • Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: 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, which without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 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 35:7-8
    2 verses
    83%

    7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

    8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Ps 56:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my ste, when they wait for my soul.

    7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

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

  • 11 They have now compassed us in our ste: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • Ps 59:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

    4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

  • 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.

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    5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

  • 3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

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

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  • 10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • 85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

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

  • 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

  • 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  • 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 From above 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 desote and faint all the day.

    14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • 13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Lam 3:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

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

  • 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

  • 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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    2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

  • 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

  • 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

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

  • 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the dee.

  • 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

  • 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

  • 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

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

  • 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

  • 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

  • 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

  • 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

  • 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.