Psalms 7:15
He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, || And he falls into a ditch he makes.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
In Context
16His perverseness returns on his head, || And his violence comes down on his crown.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
Job 15:35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, || Even their heart prepares deceit.”
Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked, || Is the poor inflamed, || They are caught in schemes that they devised.
Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps, || My soul has bowed down, || They have dug a pit before me, || They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Psalms 119:85The proud have dug pits for me, || That [are] not according to Your law.
Psalms 141:10The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
Matthew Henry on Psalms 7:11-17
The Persecutor's Doom. 10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he… Read the whole commentary →