Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
4 Preserve me, Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked, From one of violence Thou keepest me, Who have devised to overthrow my steps. 5 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. 6 I have said to Jehovah, 'My God art Thou, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of my supplications.'
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way in which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.
Psalm 57:6
A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:22
A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.
Job 18:9
Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
Psalm 10:4-12
The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.
Psalm 17:8-13
Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.
Psalm 31:4
Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.
Psalm 36:11
Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.
Psalm 119:69
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
Psalm 119:85
The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.
Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, And from thy precepts I wandered not.
Psalm 123:3-4
Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,
Psalm 141:9-10
Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 29:5
A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
Jeremiah 18:18
And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.
Luke 11:53-54
And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,
Luke 20:20-23
And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,