Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflicted saints » Should praise God
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
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.
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. read more.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Enemy » The wickedness of david's
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached 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, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even 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 cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Every day 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 mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They 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.
{A Song of degrees.} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: 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, into the midst whereof they are fallen 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; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, 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 her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
The heathen 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 the LORD; for he shall 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 lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
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, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
The good 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, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Whoso 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.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
He 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 violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will 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 it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
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, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.