Psalm 7:15 {16}
Good News Translation
But in the traps they set for others, they themselves get caught.

New Revised Standard Version
They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.

Contemporary English Version
Such people dig a deep hole, then fall in it themselves.

New American Bible
He digs a hole and bores it deep, but he falls into the pit he has made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

made.

Psalm 35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Psalm 119:85 The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.

Job 6:27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

and is

Psalm 9:15,16 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid. . . .

Psalm 10:2 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 35:8 Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

Psalm 94:13 That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked.

Psalm 140:9,10 The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. . . .

Psalm 141:10 The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Job 4:8 On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Proverbs 26:27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8,9 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him. . . .

Context
I Take Refuge in You
14Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity. 15He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.16His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.…
Cross References
Job 4:8
On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Psalm 9:15
I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 57:6
They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Psalm 119:85
The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.

Psalm 141:10
The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

Proverbs 5:22
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Proverbs 11:6
When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

Proverbs 11:27
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring up as a green leaf.

Proverbs 28:10
He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Ecclesiastes 10:8
He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Psalm 7:14
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