Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred 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.
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.
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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.
And they watched him, and sent out spies, which would pretend to be just men, that they might take hold of his words, that in this way they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governor.