Mazmur 57:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(57-7) Mereka memasang jaring terhadap langkah-langkahku, ditundukkannya jiwaku, mereka menggali lobang di depanku, tetapi mereka sendiri jatuh ke dalamnya. Sela

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(57-7) Mereka memasang jaring terhadap langkah-langkahku, ditundukkannya jiwaku, mereka menggali lobang di depanku, tetapi mereka sendiri jatuh ke dalamnya. Sela

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tinggikanlah diri-Mu di atas segala langit, ya Allah! kemuliaan-Mu adalah kiranya di atas seluruh muka bumi.

Contextual Overview

¹ Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde, be mercifull vnto me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and vnder the shadowe of thy wynges wyll I trust, vntyll this tiranny be ouerpast. ² I wyll call vnto the most high Lorde: euen vnto the Lord that wil perfourme the cause which I haue in hande. ³ He wyll sende from heauen, and saue me fro the reproofe of him that woulde deuour me vp, Selah: the Lorde wyll sende foorth his mercie and trueth. ⁴ My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword. ⁵ Exalt thy selfe O God aboue the heauen: thy glory is aboue all the earth. ⁶ They haue prepared a net for my feete, that some man might presse downe my soule: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it them selues. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a net: Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 9:15, Psalms 9:16, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:8, Psalms 140:5, 1 Samuel 23:22-26, Proverbs 29:5, Micah 7:2

my soul: Psalms 42:6, Psalms 142:3, Psalms 143:4, Matthew 26:37, Matthew 26:38

Reciprocal: Job 6:27 - ye dig Psalms 31:4 - Pull Psalms 38:6 - bowed Psalms 56:6 - mark Psalms 148:13 - glory Proverbs 11:27 - he that seeketh Proverbs 26:27 - diggeth Jeremiah 18:20 - digged Matthew 22:15 - how

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They have prepared a net for my steps,.... They laid snares for him, as the fowler does for the bird, in order to take him. It denotes the insidious ways used by Saul and his men to get David into their hands; so the Pharisees consulted together how they might entangle Christ in his talk, Matthew 22:15;

my soul is bowed down; dejected by reason of his numerous enemies, and the crafty methods they took to ensnare and ruin him; so the soul of Christ was bowed down with the sins of his people, and with a sense of divine wrath because of them; and so their souls are often bowed down; or they are dejected in their spirits, on account of sin, Satan's temptations, various afflictions, and divine desertions. The Targum renders it,

"he bowed down my soul;''

that is, the enemy; Saul in particular. The Septuagint, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, "they bowed down my soul"; the same that prepared a net for his steps; everyone of his enemies; they all were the cause of the dejection of his soul: the Syriac version leaves out the clause;

they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]; contriving and seeking to find out the places where David's haunt was, Saul got into the very cave where he and his men were; and had his skirt cut off, when his life might as easily have been taken away, 1 Samuel 23:22. See Psalms 7:15.

Selah; on this word, Psalms 7:15- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have prepared a net for my steps - A net for my goings; or, into which I may fall. See the notes at Psalms 9:15.

My soul is bowed down - The Septuagint, the Vulgate, and Luther render this in the plural, and in the active form: “They have bowed down my soul;” that is, they have caused my soul to be bowed down. The Hebrew may be correctly rendered, “he pressed down my soul,” - referring to his enemies, and speaking of them in the singular number.

They have digged a pit before me ... - See Psalms 7:15-16, notes; Psalms 9:15, note; Job 5:13, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 57:6. They have prepared a net for my steps — A gin or springe, such as huntsmen put in the places which they know the prey they seek frequents: such, also, as they place in passages in hedges, c., through which the game creeps.

They have digged a pit — Another method of catching game and wild beasts. They dig a pit, cover it over with weak sticks and turf. The beasts, not suspecting danger where none appears, in attempting to walk over it, fall through, and are taken. Saul digged a pit, laid snares for the life of David and fell into one of them himself, particularly at the cave of En-gedi; for he entered into the very pit or cave where David and his men were hidden, and his life lay at the generosity of the very man whose life he was seeking! The rabbins tell a curious and instructive tale concerning this: "God sent a spider to weave her web at the mouth of the cave in which David and his men lay hid. When Saul saw the spider's web over the cave's mouth, he very naturally conjectured that it could neither be the haunt of men nor wild beasts; and therefore went in with confidence to repose." The spider here, a vile and contemptible animal, became the instrument in the hand of God of saving David's life and of confounding Saul in his policy and malice. This may be a fable; but it shows by what apparently insignificant means God, the universal ruler, can accomplish the greatest and most beneficent ends. Saul continued to dig pits to entrap David; and at last fell a prey to his own obstinacy. We have a proverb to the same effect: Harm watch, harm catch. The Greeks have one also: Ἡ τε κακη βουλη τῳ βουλευσαντι κακιστη, "An evil advice often becomes most ruinous to the adviser." The Romans have one to the same effect: -

Neque enim lex justior ulla est

Quam necis artificem arte perire sua.

"There is no law more just than that which condemns a man to suffer death by the instrument which he has invented to take away the life of others."