Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Feet » Of the wicked » Ensnared
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Heathen » General references to
And the sons of Israel, those returning from the captivity, and every one who is separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the land unto them, to seek to Jehovah, God of Israel, do eat,
and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, and also his son he hath caused to pass over into fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,
And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
And I have given My honour among nations, And seen have all the nations My Judgment that I have done, And My hand that I have laid on them.
Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'
and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made;
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.
Net » Figurative
A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many.
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Mine eyes are continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet.
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.
When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.
Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.
For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul. Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!
A spreading place of nets she is in the midst of the sea, For I -- I have spoken -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And she hath been for a spoil to nations.
And I have given thee up for a clear place of a rock, A spreading-place of nets thou art, Thou art not built up any more, For I, Jehovah, I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Thorns -- snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.
In the transgression of the evil is a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.