Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Pit » Figurative
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.
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a serpent.
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.
Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your Law.
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,' says the LORD.
The Proud » General references to
"For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says the LORD of hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your Law.
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
Now we call the proud blessed; indeed, those who work wickedness prosper. They even tempt God and escape.'
Snares laid » General references to
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.
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.
"Listen to this, you priests. Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king. For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your Law.
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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.