9 Bible Verses about Snares Laid for People

For without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not according to thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.