9 Bible Verses about Snares Laid for People

For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

The proud have dug pits for me, but they do not proceed according to thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet did not I err from thy precepts.

The proud have hid a snare for me and cords; they have spread a net; on the path they have set snares for me. Selah.

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

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou didst know my path. In the way in which I walked have they secretly laid a snare for me.

For among my people were found wicked men: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.

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

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king because the judgment is for you, for ye have been a snare in Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.