Psalms 7:15
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
In Context
14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
Psalms 119:85The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
Psalms 141:10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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 →