Thematic Bible: Snares laid


Thematic Bible



When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

"Listen to this, you priests. Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king. For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your Law.

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.




Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.


Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"



They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.