9 Bible Verses about Snares Laid for People

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

The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I strayed not from your precepts.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

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

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

For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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

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