תהלים 35:8

Hebrew Modern Translation

תבואהו שואה לא ידע ורשתו אשר טמן תלכדו בשואה יפל בה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
שואה לא-ידע ורשתו אשר-טמן תלכדו בשואה יפל-בה

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
תְּבוֹאֵ֣הוּ שׁוֹאָה֮ לֹֽא־יֵ֫דָ֥ע וְרִשְׁתֹּ֣ו אֲשֶׁר־טָמַ֣ן תִּלְכְּדֹ֑ו בְּ֝שׁוֹאָ֗ה יִפָּל־בָּֽהּ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
תְּבוֹאֵהוּ שׁוֹאָה לֹֽא־יֵדָע וְרִשְׁתּוֹ אֲשֶׁר־טָמַן תִּלְכְּדוֹ בְּשׁוֹאָה יִפָּל־בָּֽהּ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let destruction: All the verbs in these verses - Psalms 35:4-8, in the original, are in the future tense, as a prediction, and should probably be so rendered; though as that tense is frequently used in Hebrew for the imperative, most translators, both ancient and modern, have considered them as an imprecation. Psalms 64:7, Psalms 73:18-20, Proverbs 29:1, Luke 21:34, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

at unawares: Heb. which he knoweth not of

net: Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 57:6, Psalms 141:9, Psalms 141:10, Proverbs 5:22

into: 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 31:2-4, 2 Samuel 17:2-4, 2 Samuel 17:23, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:15, Esther 7:10, Matthew 27:3-5

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:20 - by laying Esther 7:9 - Behold Job 5:13 - taketh Job 18:8 - he is cast Psalms 9:15 - General Psalms 35:15 - I knew Psalms 37:15 - sword Psalms 142:3 - In the way

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let destruction come upon him at unawares,.... Or a "storm" r, such as is caused in the eastern countries by a south wind, very sudden, violent, and destructive s: the singular number being here used, some Jewish commentators, as Kimchi, have thought Saul is particularly meant; and some Christian interpreters have been of opinion that Judas is intended: the imprecations here may be compared with those which respect him, Psalms 109:6. Though this may regard every one of the enemies of David, or of Christ and his people, whose ruin and destruction will come upon them unawares; see 1 Thessalonians 5:3;

and let his net that he hath laid catch himself; a figurative expression, agreeable to the allusion before made, and which is explained in the next clause;

into that very destruction let him fall, which he had designed and contrived for others; so Haman was hanged on the same gallows he had prepared for Mordecai; and so it often is in the course of Providence, that the wicked fall into the same calamity they have intended and endeavoured to bring others into; see Psalms 7:15.

r שואה "tumultuosa calamitas", Cocceius; so Ainsworth; "tumultus", Vatablus. s See Thevenot, Tavernier, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let destruction come upon him at unawares - Margin, which “he knoweth not of.” So the Hebrew. The meaning is, Let destruction come upon him when he is not looking for it, or expecting it.

And let his net that he hath hid catch himself - See the notes at Psalms 7:15-16. The psalmist prays here that the same thing may occur to his enemy which his enemy had designed for him. It is simply a prayer that they might be treated as they purposed to treat him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 35:8. Let his net that he hath hid — See the notes on Psalms 7:15; Psalms 7:16.