know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

“A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.

“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.

May their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set snares for me. Selah.

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.

It is a trap for a man to say rashly, “It is holy!”
And after the vows to make inquiry.

“Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,
And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers lying in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.

Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?