World English Bible
Psalms 57:6
“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.”
Psalms 57:6 in the King James Version
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.Read Psalms 57:6 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Psalms 57
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.
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!
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.
My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
Cross references for Psalms 57:6
- Psalms 145:14
Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
- Psalms 7:15-16
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Proverbs 28:10
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
- Micah 7:2
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.
- Psalms 35:7-8
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
- Psalms 140:5
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.
- Psalms 9:15-16
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
- Psalms 142:3
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.
- Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
- 1 Samuel 23:22-26
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. See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and co...
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