Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.


The sons of Israel who returned from exile and all those who had separated themselves from the impurity of the nations of the land to join them, to seek the Lord God of Israel, ate the Passover.

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the sons of Israel.

“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

“And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced.

The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.


They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

You brought us into the net;
You laid an oppressive burden upon our loins.

The wicked man desires the booty of evil men,
But the root of the righteous yields fruit.

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

And the fishermen will lament,
And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn,
And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

A man who flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will pluck my feet out of the net.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set snares for me. Selah.

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.

Know then that God has wronged me
And has closed His net around me.


For without cause they hid their net for me; Without cause they dug a pit for my soul. Let destruction come upon him unawares, And let the net which he hid catch himself; Into that very destruction let him fall.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
While I pass by safely.

She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God, ‘and she will become spoil for the nations.

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more, for I the Lord have spoken,” declares the Lord God.


He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.

“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.

He who digs a pit will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

By transgression an evil man is ensnared,
But the righteous sings and rejoices.

“Many will stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken;
They will even be snared and caught.”