Psalms 7:15
A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
In Context
16Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen — ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Job 15:35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
Psalms 57:6A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Psalms 119:85The proud have digged for me pits, That [are] not according to Thy law.
Psalms 141:10The wicked fall in their nets together, till 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 →