9 Bible Verses about Snares Laid for People

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not gone astray from thy precepts.

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

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

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.

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.