Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflicted saints » Should praise God
But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.
You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book? Then my enemies will turn back {when} I call. This I know because God [is] for me. God, [whose] word I praise, Yahweh, [whose] word I praise,
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
You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around. On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, [and] your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel. read more.
My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed.
My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed.
Enemy » The wickedness of david's
because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
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
My soul [is] among lions. I lie down [among those who] devour-- the children of humankind whose teeth [are] spears and arrows and whose tongues [are] sharp swords.
They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah
All day they twist my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.
For my enemies talk concerning me, and those who watch for my life conspire together,
All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear [oaths] against me.
for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue. They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause. In return for my love they accuse me, though I [am in] prayer. read more.
So they inflicted evil against me in return for good and hatred in return for my love.
So they inflicted evil against me in return for good and hatred in return for my love.
"Too often they have attacked me from my youth." Let Israel say, "Too often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows long."
Net » Figurative
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
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.
And the fishers will mourn, and all of those who cast fishhooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread out fishing nets on [the] {surface} of [the] water will languish.
I myself found [that] more bitter than death [is] the woman who [is] a trap, whose heart [is] a snare, and whose hands [are] bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her.
And then fishers from En Gedi and [on] up to En Eglaim will stand beside it, a sea-girt drying yard for nets; their fish for the dragnets will be {of every kind}, like the fish of the great sea, [and] very many.
[The] nations have fallen in [the] pit [that] they made; their foot is caught in [the] net that they hid.
My eyes [are] continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from [the] net.
[The] proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along [the] {side} of [the] path. They have set snares for me. Selah
He lies in ambush {secretly,} like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize [the] poor; he seizes [the] poor by catching him in his net.
Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly.
Bring me out of [the] net that they have secretly set for me, for you [are] my refuge.
For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life. Let {unforeseen ruin} come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.
Let [the] wicked fall into their nets, while I escape altogether.
It will become a place for spreading out dragnets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken,' {declares} the Lord Yahweh. 'And it will become as plunder for the nations,
And I will make you into {a bare rock}, a place for [the] spreading out of dragnets. You will not be built again, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
Net » A snare for men
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
The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.
Pit » Figurative
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
He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
And [so] he brought me up from [the] roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.
For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him.
He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in [the] trap he has made. His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull.
Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or [the] deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.
[The] arrogant have dug pits for me, which [is] not according to your law.
He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.
"He [who] flees {before} the dread will fall into the pit, and the [one who] climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.
Punishment of the The Wicked » Often brought about by their evil designs
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
And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated.