'Trap' in the Bible
know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God gave you.
Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. He said to Ahaziah, "It's a trap, Ahaziah!"
A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.
I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.
They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)
May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!
The arrogant dig pits to trap me, which violates your law.
The wicked lay a trap for me, but I do not wander from your precepts.
Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
till an arrow pierces his liver -- like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble -- to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.
Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.
Anyone who flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. For the time is coming when I will punish the people of Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it!
I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.
Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.
Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?