Psalms 57:6

World English Bible (2000)

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 145:14 : 14 Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
  • Ps 142:3 : 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
  • Ps 143:4 : 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
  • Prov 28:10 : 10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  • 1 Sam 23:22-26 : 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah." 24 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 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 26 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 surrounded David and his men to take them.
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
  • Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. 16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
  • Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 140:5
    84%

    5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    83%

    7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

    8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 56:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

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

  • Ps 9:15
    80%

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

  • Ps 17:11
    79%

    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Ps 59:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

    4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

  • Jer 18:22
    78%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Ps 7:5
    78%

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

  • Ps 54:3
    77%

    3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

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

    10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

  • Lam 3:53
    77%

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

  • Ps 142:3
    77%

    3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

  • Ps 71:10
    76%

    10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

  • Ps 119:85
    76%

    85 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

  • Ps 63:9
    76%

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

  • Ps 31:4
    75%

    4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

  • Ps 143:3
    75%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Ps 38:16
    75%

    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

  • Job 19:6
    75%

    6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Job 30:13
    75%

    13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

  • Lam 3:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Ps 22:16
    75%

    16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • Ps 7:15
    75%

    15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

  • Ps 70:2
    75%

    2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

  • Lam 3:9
    75%

    9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • Ps 3:2
    74%

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

  • Ps 86:14
    74%

    14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • Ps 18:38
    74%

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

  • Ps 35:4
    74%

    4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

  • Ps 88:6
    74%

    6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

  • Ps 38:12
    74%

    12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 25:15
    74%

    15 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    74%

    6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

  • Job 18:10
    74%

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

  • Ps 57:4
    74%

    4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who 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%

    13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 73:18
    74%

    18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

  • Job 18:8
    74%

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

  • Ps 40:14
    74%

    14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

  • Jer 18:20
    73%

    20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

  • Ps 118:13
    73%

    13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.