תהלים 9:15

Hebrew Modern Translation

טבעו גוים בשחת עשו ברשת זו טמנו נלכדה רגלם׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[9:16] גוים בשחת עשו ברשת-זו טמנו נלכדה רגלם

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[9:16] טָבְע֣וּ גֹ֭ויִם בְּשַׁ֣חַת עָשׂ֑וּ בְּרֶֽשֶׁת־ז֥וּ טָ֝מָ֗נוּ נִלְכְּדָ֥ה רַגְלָֽם ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[9:16] טָבְעוּ גוֹיִם בְּשַׁחַת עָשׂוּ בְּרֶֽשֶׁת־זוּ טָמָנוּ נִלְכְּדָה רַגְלָֽם ׃

Bible Verse Review
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Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 35:8, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 57:6, Psalms 94:23, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 22:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:33 - General Numbers 16:33 - into the Esther 5:14 - he caused Esther 7:9 - Hang him thereon Job 5:13 - taketh Job 18:8 - he is cast Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 10:2 - let Psalms 10:16 - heathen Psalms 33:10 - The Lord Psalms 35:7 - hid Psalms 59:5 - the heathen Psalms 94:13 - until the pit Proverbs 11:5 - direct Proverbs 11:27 - he that seeketh Proverbs 12:2 - a man Proverbs 12:12 - desireth Proverbs 26:27 - diggeth Proverbs 28:10 - he shall Ecclesiastes 10:8 - that John 8:9 - went out Acts 5:37 - he also 1 Corinthians 3:19 - He

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Heathen are sunk into the pit [that] they made,.... The psalmist having determined to praise the Lord, and called upon others to join with him in it, here enters upon it: for, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra observe, this is תהלה "the praise" he was desirous to show forth, which is occasioned by the destruction of God's enemies, and the deliverance of his people: by "the Heathen" are meant not the Philistines, as Kimchi interprets it, who thought to cause Israel to fall, and fell themselves; but this is spoken prophetically of the nations of the earth, who have joined in the idolatry of antichrist, the Gentiles, by whom the holy city has been trodden under foot; even the several antichristian states, that will be destroyed by the pouring out of the seven vials, and especially the last, at the battle of Armageddon; and which will be brought on by themselves, with a design to destroy the whole kingdom and interest of Christ, but will issue in their utter ruin, which this phrase is expressive of; see

Revelation 18:3. The metaphor is taken from hunters, who dig pits for the wild beasts to fall into, that they may the more easily take them, into which they fall themselves; see Psalms 7:15. Wicked men are mischievous and crafty, but sometimes they are taken in their own craftiness;

in the net which they laid is their own foot taken; which may signify the same thing as before, that the mischief they design for others falls upon themselves; only as the former phrase denotes their utter destruction like the sinking of a millstone in the sea, by which the irrecoverable ruin of Babylon is expressed, Revelation 18:21; this may design the restraint and hinderance of them from doing the evil they would; their feet are entangled, that they cannot run to shed blood; and their hands are held, that they cannot perform their enterprise; and their wrath in restrained and made to praise the Lord. The metaphor is taken from fowlers, who lay nets and snares for birds, and cover them that they may not be seen, but fall into them unawares; see Psalms 124:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The heathen - Hebrew, “The nations;” that is, the idolatrous people that were arrayed against him. See the notes at Psalms 9:5.

Are sunk down - That is, referring to those who had been overcome, as mentioned in Psalms 9:5; or to those who still encompassed him, in respect to whom he was so certain that they would be overcome that he could speak of it as a thing already accomplished. According to the former view, it would be an encouragement derived from the past; according to the latter, it would indicate unwavering confidence in God, and the certain assurance of ultimate victory. It is not easy to determine which is the true interpretation. The Hebrew is, “Sunk are the nations in the pit which they have made;” that is, he sees them sinking down to destruction.

In the pit that they made - In which they designed that others should fall. See the notes at Psalms 7:15.

In the net which they hid - Which they laid for others. The allusion here is to a spring-net made to capture birds or wild beasts.

Is their own foot taken - The net here referred to seems to have been particularly a net to take wild beasts by securing one of their feet, like a modern trap. The idea is, that they had been brought into the destruction which they had designed for others. See the notes at Psalms 7:15-16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 9:15. The heathen are sunk down to the pit — See on Psalms 7:15.