9 Bible Verses about Snares Laid for People

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

The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone astray from thy precepts.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.

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

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

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

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

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for to you pertains the judgment. For ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.