Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They hid their net for me without cause;
they dug a pit for me without cause.

International Standard Version

Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me.

A Conservative Version

For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.

Bible in Basic English

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul.

King James 2000

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life.

Modern King James verseion

For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.

NET Bible

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

New Heart English Bible

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

The Emphasized Bible

For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net, - Without cause, have they digged a pit for my life.

Webster

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

World English Bible

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Youngs Literal Translation

For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

References

Fausets

Pit

Morish

Pit

Context Readings

Prayer For Victory

6 Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them! 7 For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it--to his destruction!

Cross References

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Psalm 140:5

The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah

Psalm 7:3-5

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Psalm 25:3

Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Psalm 64:4

shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.

Psalm 69:4

More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

Psalm 119:85

The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.

John 15:25

But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'

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