Psalm 140:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, along the road they have set snares for me. Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The proud have hidden a snare for me; they have spread cords as a net by the wayside, they have set traps for me. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. [Selah

Common English Bible

⁵ Arrogant people have laid a trap for me with ropes. They’ve spread out a net alongside the road. They’ve set snares for me. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ The just shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Psalm 140:5 Cross References

Job 18:9

A trap seizes them by the heel; a snare lays hold of them.

Psalm 119:110

The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.

Psalm 119:69

The arrogant smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts.

Psalm 119:85

The arrogant have dug pitfalls for me; they flout your law.

Psalm 142:3

When my spirit is faint, you know my way. In the path where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me.

Psalm 31:4

take me out of the net that is hidden for me, for you are my refuge.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 36:11

Do not let the foot of the arrogant tread on me or the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;

Proverbs 29:5

Whoever flatters a neighbor is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

May a cry be heard from their houses when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to catch me and laid snares for my feet.