Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflicted saints » Should praise God
But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book? Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me. In God (I will praise his word), In Jehovah (I will praise his word),
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
Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth. Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and comfort me. I will also praise thee with the psaltery, Even thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. read more.
My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto thee; And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto thee; And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Enemy » The wickedness of david's
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
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
My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.
For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue. They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer. read more.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say, Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
Net » Figurative
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
The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit .
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; For he will pluck my feet out of the net.
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
He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause , And hath compassed me with his net.
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul. Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I withal escape.
She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Net » A snare for men
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
The godly man is perished out of 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.
Pit » Figurative
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
Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Punishment of the The Wicked » Often brought about by their evil designs
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
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.