Net

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.

Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.

You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.

She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.

Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.

And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.