'Trapped' in the Bible
Then men in ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces, some on one side and some on the other. They struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained,
When it was reported to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with barred gates.”
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.
then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."
The wicked one arrogantly pursues the afflicted, who are trapped in the schemes he devises.
His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.
you have been trapped by the words of your lips—ensnared by the words of your mouth.
The righteousness of the upright rescues them,but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.
An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech,but a righteous one escapes from trouble.
An evil man is trapped by transgression, but the righteous person sings and rejoices.
I discovered for myself a bitterness that surpasses that of death: the woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, whose hands are chains of bondage. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the transgressor will be trapped by her.
For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.
Then the word of the Lord came to them:“Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there,”so they go stumbling backward,to be broken, trapped, and captured.
But this is a people plundered and looted,all of them trapped in holesor imprisoned in dungeons.They have become plunderwith no one to rescue themand loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh, I struggle to hold [it] in. Pour [it] out on [the] children in the street, and on the assemblies of young men at the same time. For even husband with wife will get trapped, [the] old with [him who is] full of days.
The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?
But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.
Instead, each person is tempted by his own desire, being lured and trapped by it.