Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflicted saints » Should praise God
But I have trusted in Your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your Book? When I cry, then my enemies will be turned back. This I know, for God is with me. In God I will praise His Word; in Jehovah will I praise His Word.
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.
who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up. You will increase my greatness and surround and comfort me on every side. I will also praise You with a harp. O my God, I will sing Your truth; to You I will sing with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. read more.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You, and my soul, which You have redeemed.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You, and my soul, which You have redeemed.
Enemy » The wickedness of david's
For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.
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.
My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.
All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away.
My enemies curse me all the day; and they who 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 spoke against me with a lying tongue. And they surrounded me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my foes; but I am in 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 times they have afflicted me from my youth, Israel may now say; many times they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed over me. The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.
Net » Figurative
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.
For man also does not know 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 falls suddenly on them.
The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who drop a hook into the Nile shall wail, and those who spread nets on the waters shall droop.
and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
And it will be, the fishermen shall stand on it from En-gedi even to En-eglaim, a spreading place for nets shall be there. Their fish shall be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.
My eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.
The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.
He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
When they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.
Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.
For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul. Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets together, while I escape.
It shall be a spreading place of nets in the middle of the sea. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah. And it shall become a spoil to the nations.
And I will make you like a shining rock. You shall be a place to spread nets on; you shall be built no more; for I Jehovah have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.
Net » A snare for men
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.
The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Pit » Figurative
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.
Whoever causes the righteous man to go astray in an evil way, he himself shall fall into his own pit; but the upright shall inherit good.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and gave sureness to my steps.
For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.
He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come on his own crown.
Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to Your Law.
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will turn back to him.
He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring on it, even on Moab, the year of their judgment, says 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 dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.
And they hanged Haman on the wooden gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down.