Parallel Verses
Webster
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen themselves. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
My soul is
They
They themselves have
King James Version
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Holman Bible
I was despondent.
They dug a pit ahead of me,
but they fell into it!
International Standard Version
They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah
Amplified
They
My very life was bowed down.
They dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
They prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bent down: they dug a pit before me, they fell into the midst of it. Silence.
King James 2000
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
Modern King James verseion
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.
NET Bible
They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
A net, did they fix for my steps, My soul was bowed down, - They digged before me a pit, They fell into the midst thereof! Selah.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Afflicted saints » Should praise God
Enemy » The wickedness of david's
Punishment of the The Wicked » Often brought about by their evil designs
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 57:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For God's Protection
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen themselves. Selah. 7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 140:5
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.
Psalm 145:14
The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that are bowed down.
1 Samuel 23:22-26
Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know, and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told to me that he dealeth very subtilly.
Psalm 7:15-16
He made a pit, and digged it, and hath fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 9:15-16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalm 35:7-8
For without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalm 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Psalm 143:4
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Proverbs 28:10
Whoever causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Proverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
Micah 7:2
The good man hath perished from the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Matthew 26:37-38
And he took with him Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.