Psalms 57:6 · KJV
“They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen {themselves}. Selah.”
— Psalms 57:6
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; {let} thy glory {be} above all the earth.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. {fixed: or, prepared}
Psalms 57 — Context
My soul {is} among lions: {and} I lie {even among} them that are set on fire, {even} the sons of men, whose teeth {are} spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; {let} thy glory {be} above all the earth.
6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen {themselves}. Selah.
7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. {fixed: or, prepared}
8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I {myself} will awake early.
Cross References
Psalms 145:14
The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all {those that be} bowed down.
Proverbs 28:10
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good {things} in possession.
Psalms 7:15-16
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}
Micah 7:2
The good {man} is perished out of the earth: and {there is} none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. {good: or, godly, or, merciful}
Psalms 35:7-8
For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms 9:15-16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.