9:15 The nations fell 1 into the pit they had made;
their feet were caught in the net they had hidden. 2
25:15 I continually look to the Lord for help, 3
for he will free my feet from the enemy’s net. 4
31:4 You will free me 5 from the net they hid for me,
for you are my place of refuge.
35:7 I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me
and dug a pit to trap me. 6
35:8 Let destruction take them by surprise! 7
Let the net they hid catch them!
Let them fall into destruction! 8
1 tn Heb “sank down.”
2 sn The hostility of the nations against God’s people is their downfall, for it prompts God to intervene and destroy them. See also Ps 7:15-16.
3 tn Heb “my eyes continually [are] toward the
4 tn Heb “for he will bring out from a net my feet.” The hostility of the psalmist’s enemies is probably in view (see v. 19).
5 tn Heb “bring me out.” The translation assumes that the imperfect verbal form expresses the psalmist’s confidence about the future. Another option is to take the form as expressing a prayer, “free me.”
6 tc Heb “for without cause they hid for me a pit of their net, without cause they dug for my life.” It appears that the words “pit” and “net” have been transposed. “Net” goes with the verb “hid” in the first line (see v. 8, as well as Pss 9:15; 31:4), while “pit” goes with the verb “dug” in the second line (see Ps 7:15).
7 tn Heb “let destruction [which] he does not know come to him.” The singular is used of the enemy in v. 8, probably in a representative or collective sense. The psalmist has more than one enemy, as vv. 1-7 make clear.
8 tn The psalmist’s prayer for his enemies’ demise continues. See vv. 4-6.