Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
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Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
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Exodus 9:17
because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
Job 40:11
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
Job 40:12
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Jeremiah 43:2
then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’
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1 Samuel 23:20
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 23:22
Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Psalms 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
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Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
Proverbs 26:27
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
Proverbs 28:10
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
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Psalms 30:9
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psalms 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Psalms 94:13
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Isaiah 51:14
The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.
Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
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Psalms 58:1
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
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Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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2 Samuel 15:1
After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:3
Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
2 Samuel 15:5
It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”
2 Samuel 15:9
The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:10
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’ ”
2 Samuel 15:11
Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.
2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 86:14
God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
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Psalms 119:1
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Psalms 119:22
Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
Psalms 119:29
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119:44
So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
Psalms 119:55
I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Psalms 119:77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
Psalms 119:109
My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Psalms 119:136
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.
Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
Psalms 119:163
I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
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Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
Psalms 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
Psalms 119:88
Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
Psalms 119:92
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Psalms 119:113
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Psalms 119:126
It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
Psalms 119:134
Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
Psalms 119:142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
Psalms 119:153
Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
Psalms 119:158
I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
Psalms 119:161
Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
Psalms 119:165
Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Psalms 119:174
I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
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Psalms 119:119
You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
Psalms 119:157
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
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Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
Psalms 10:12
Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
Psalms 10:13
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
Psalms 10:14
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Psalms 10:16
Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 124:6
Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
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Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Hosea 5:1
“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
Acts 12:11
When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
Acts 23:21
Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.
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Psalms 12:4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Psalms 19:13
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Psalms 35:26
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Isaiah 51:23
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
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