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A Conservative Version
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
They have spread a
They have set
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
they spread a net along the path
and set snares for me.
International Standard Version
The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude
American Standard Version
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
Amplified
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set traps for me. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.
King James 2000
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along [the] {side} of [the] path. They have set snares for me. Selah
Modern King James verseion
The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords, yea and set traps in my way. Selah.
NET Bible
Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and, cords, have they spread as a net beside the track, Snares, have they set for me. Selah.
Webster
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:5
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Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of a wicked man. Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to thrust aside my steps. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah. 6 I said to LORD, Thou are my God. Give ear to the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses when thou shall bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Job 18:9
A trap shall take [him] by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.
Psalm 10:4-12
The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalm 17:8-13
Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalm 31:4
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for thou are my stronghold.
Psalm 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners drive me away.
Psalm 119:69
The proud have forged a lie against me. With my whole heart I will keep thy precepts.
Psalm 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to thy law.
Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone astray from thy precepts.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalm 141:9-10
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Luke 11:53-54
And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things,
Luke 20:20-23
And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.