the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 7:15
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He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,And has fallen into the hole which he made.
He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made.
He hath made a graue and digged it: but he hym selfe wyll fall into the pit whiche he hath made.
He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.
They dig a pit to trap others, but they are the ones who will fall into it.
He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
He hath grauen and dygged vp a pytte, but he shal fall himself in to ye pytte yt he hath made.
See that man shoveling day after day, digging, then concealing, his man-trap down that lonely stretch of road? Go back and look again—you'll see him in it headfirst, legs waving in the breeze. That's what happens: mischief backfires; violence boomerangs.
He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
He has made a pit, and dug it, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
He made a pit, and digged it, and hath fallen into the ditch [which] he made.
he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.
Such people dig a deep hole, then fall in it themselves.
Look how the wicked is pregnant with evil; he conceives trouble, gives birth to lies.
Hee hath made a pitte and digged it, and is fallen into the pit that he made.
He has made a well, and deepened it, and is fallen into the pit which he made.
He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].
He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.
They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves.
He has dug out a deep hole, and has fallen into the hole he has dug.
He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.
He hath made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.
A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:
(7-16) He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.
He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in the trap he has made.
He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made.
They dig a hole to trap others, but they will fall into it themselves.
But in the traps they set for others, they themselves get caught.
He dug a pit and hollowed it out but fell into the hole he had made.
He openide a lake, and diggide it out; and he felde in to the dich which he made.
A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
made: Heb. hath digged, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 119:85, Job 6:27, Jeremiah 18:20
and is: Psalms 9:15, Psalms 9:16, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 35:8, Psalms 94:13, Psalms 140:9, Psalms 140:10, Psalms 141:10, Esther 7:10, Job 4:8, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 26:27, Ecclesiastes 10:8, Ecclesiastes 10:9
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:51 - his sword 2 Samuel 17:11 - in thine 1 Kings 21:19 - In the place 2 Kings 16:8 - to the king Esther 7:9 - Behold Job 5:13 - taketh Psalms 37:15 - sword Psalms 55:23 - O God Psalms 57:6 - a net Proverbs 11:27 - he that seeketh Proverbs 28:10 - he shall Acts 5:37 - he also 1 Corinthians 3:19 - He
Cross-References
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He made a pit and digged it,.... That is, he digged a pit, and made it very large and capacious, to answer his purposes;
and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made; so it is said of the Heathen, Psalms 9:15; and is exemplified in the case of Haman, who was hanged upon the gallows he had built for Mordecai. Kimchi explains this of Saul's falling upon his own sword, and dying by it, which he drew against David; phrase is proverbial, Proverbs 26:27; the sense of this and the above figurative expressions is literally and properly given in Psalms 7:16.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He made a pit - The allusion here is undoubtedly to a method of hunting wild beasts which was common in ancient times. It consists in digging a pit-fall, and covering it over with brush and grass so as to deceive the animals, and then enclosing them and driving them into it. See the notes at Isaiah 24:17.
And digged it - And hollowed it out so as to be large enough to contain his prey, and so deep that he could not escape if he fell into it. The idea is, that the enemy here referred to had laid a secret and artful plan to destroy others. He meant that they should not be aware of his plan until the mischief came suddenly upon them. He was preparing to ruin them, and supposed that he was certain of his prey.
And is fallen into the ditch which he made - Into the pit-fall which he had constructed for others; as if a man who had made a pit-fall for wild beasts had himself fallen into it, and could not extricate himself. That is, he had been snared in his own devices; his cunning had recoiled on himself, and instead of bringing ruin on others he had only managed to bring it on himself. See this sentiment illustrated in the notes at Job 5:13. A remarkable instance of the kind may be found in Esther (Est. 5–7), in the case of Haman. Indeed, such things are not uncommon in the world, where the cunning and the crafty are involved in the consequences of their own plans, and are taken in meshes from which they cannot free themselves. A straightforward course is easy, and men are safe in it; but it requires more skill than most men are endowed with to manage a crooked and crafty policy safely, or so as to be safe themselves in pursuing such a course. A spider will weave a web for flies with no danger to himself, for he is made for that, and acts as if he understood all the intricacies of his own web, and may move safely over it in every direction; but man was made to accomplish his purposes in an open and upright way, not by fraud and deceit; hence, when he undertakes a tortuous and crooked course - a plan of secret and scheming policy - in order to ruin others, it often becomes unmanageable by his own skill, or is suddenly sprung upon himself. No one can overvalue a straightforward course in its influence on our ultimate happiness; no one can overestimate the guilt and danger of a crooked and secret policy in devising plans of evil.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 7:15. He made a pit — He determined the destruction of David. He laid his plans with much artifice; he executed them with zeal and diligence; and when he had, as he supposed, the grave of David digged, he fell into it himself! The metaphor is taken from pits dug in the earth, and slightly covered over with reeds, c., so as not to be discerned from the solid ground but the animal steps on them, the surface breaks, and he falls into the pit and is taken. "All the world agrees to acknowledge the equity of that sentence, which inflicts upon the guilty the punishment intended by them for the innocent." - Horne.
