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Salmos 140:5
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Los soberbios han ocultado trampa y cuerdas para mí; han tendido red al borde del sendero; me han puesto lazos. (Selah)
Me han escondido lazo y cuerdas los soberbios; han tendido red junto a la senda; me han puesto lazos. (Selah)
Me han escondido lazo y cuerdas los soberbios; han tendido red; en el lugar de la senda me han puesto lazos. (Selah.)
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The proud: Psalms 10:4-12, Psalms 17:8-13, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 36:11, Psalms 57:6, Psalms 119:69, Psalms 119:85, Psalms 119:110, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 141:9, Psalms 141:10, Psalms 142:3, Proverbs 29:5, Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 18:20, Jeremiah 18:22, Luke 11:53, Luke 11:54, Luke 20:20-23
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then 2 Samuel 22:6 - sorrows Nehemiah 6:14 - think thou Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 31:4 - Pull Psalms 31:20 - from Psalms 38:12 - lay snares Psalms 64:5 - of laying snares Psalms 86:14 - O God Psalms 129:4 - cut asunder Proverbs 24:15 - Lay Mark 12:13 - they send Luke 6:45 - and an
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords,.... These were the Ziphites, according to Arama; see Psalms 119:85; the character well agrees with the Scribes and Pharisees, who were proud boasters, and despised others, and often laid snares for Christ to take away his life; and with the enemies of the church and people of God; who, through their pride, persecute them, and are insidious, and use artful methods to ensnare them; as the fowler lays his snare for the bird, and has his cords to draw it to him when it is taken in the snare, to which the allusion is;
they have spread a net by the wayside: they waylaid him; knowing the way he would go, they lay in wait for him, to seize him at once as he went along; see John 18:1; the word "cords" in the preceding clause should be connected with this, and be read, "and with cords they have spread a net by the wayside": it being usual, as Jarchi observes, to fasten a long cord at the top of the net; and when the fowler sees the birds under the net, he draws the cord, and the net falls upon the fowls;
they have set gins for me; all these expressions design the insidiousness, and the private, secret, artful methods, the enemies of David, of Christ and his people, took and do take to ensnare them. Arama interprets the "snare and cords" of the watching of David's house; the "net by the wayside" of posting themselves at the gates of the city, and surrounding it; and gins of spies; see 1 Samuel 19:11.
Selah; on this word, 1 Samuel 19:11- :.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The proud have hid a snare for me - Haughty; arrogant; oppressive men. See Psalms 35:7, note; Psalms 57:6, note.
And cords - Strings; twine; as those do who lay a net to catch birds, and who design to spring it upon them unawares.
They have spread a net by the wayside - Where I may be expected to walk, and where it may be suddenly sprung upon me.
They have set gins for me - Snares, toils - such as are set for wild beasts. The meaning is, that they had not only made open war upon him, but they had sought to bring him into an ambush - to rush upon him suddenly when he was not on his guard, and did not know that, danger was near.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 140:5. Have hid a snare for me — They hunted David as they would a dangerous wild beast: one while striving to pierce him with the spear; another to entangle him in their snares, so as to take and sacrifice him before the people, on pretense of his being an enemy to the state.
Selah — This is the truth.
