Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Malice » Brings its own punishment
He made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made [before the trap was completed]. His mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down [with the loose dirt] upon his own scalp.
Pit » Figurative
They
My very life was bowed down.
They dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.
He who leads the upright astray on an evil path
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.
He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.
For a prostitute is a deep pit,
And an immoral woman is a narrow well.
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
He made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made [before the trap was completed]. His mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down [with the loose dirt] upon his own scalp.
Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,
Nor the deep waters swallow me up,
Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.
The arrogant (godless) have dug pits for me,
Men who do not conform to Your law.
Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.
“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who gets up out of the pit
Will be taken and caught in the trap;
For I shall bring upon it, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.