תהלים 7:15

Hebrew Modern Translation

בור כרה ויחפרהו ויפל בשחת יפעל׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[7:16] כרה ויחפרהו ויפל בשחת יפעל

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[7:16] בֹּ֣ור כָּ֭רָֽה וַֽיַּחְפְּרֵ֑הוּ וַ֝יִּפֹּ֗ל בְּשַׁ֣חַת יִפְעָֽל ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[7:16] בּוֹר כָּרָֽה וַֽיַּחְפְּרֵהוּ וַיִּפֹּל בְּשַׁחַת יִפְעָֽל ׃

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

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.