Psalm 140:5

The arrogant have fhidden a trap for me,

and with cords they have spread ga net;1

beside the way they have set hsnares for me. Selah

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Psalm 35:7
For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 141:9
Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!

Psalm 142:3
When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

Jeremiah 18:22
May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.

Job 18:8–10
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him. A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

Psalm 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”


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