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Psalm 140:5
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KJ21
The proud have hid a snare for me, and with cords they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah
ASV
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
AMP
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah.
AMPC
The proud have hidden a snare for me; they have spread cords as a net by the wayside, they have set traps for me. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
BRG
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.
CSB
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me.Selah
CSBA
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me. Selah
CEB
Arrogant people have laid a trap for me with ropes. They’ve spread out a net alongside the road. They’ve set snares for me. Selah
CJB
Keep me, Adonai, from the hands of the wicked, protect me from violent people who are trying to trip me up.
CEV
Those proud people have hidden traps and nets to catch me as I walk.
DARBY
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.
DRA
The just shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:
ERV
These proud people are trying to trap me. They spread nets to catch me; they set traps in my path. Selah
EASY
Proud people have prepared a trap to catch me. They have put their nets across my path. Selah.
EHV
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and ropes. They have spread out a net along my route. Interlude They have set traps for me.
ESV
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
ESVUK
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
EXB
The ·proud [arrogant] hid a trap for me. They spread out a net [L with cords] beside the road; they set ·traps [snares] for me. ·Selah [Interlude]
GNV
The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net with cords in my pathway, and set gins for me. Selah.
GW
Arrogant people have laid a trap for me. They have spread out a net with ropes. They have set traps for me along the road. Selah
GNT
The proud have set a trap for me; they have laid their snares, and along the path they have set traps to catch me.
HCSB
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me.Selah
ICB
Proud men have hidden a trap for me. They have spread out a net beside the road. They have set traps for me. Selah
ISV
The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude
JUB
The proud have hid a snare for me and cords; they have spread a net; on the path they have set snares for me. Selah.
KJV
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.
AKJV
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.
LSB
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.
LEB
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along the side of the path. They have set snares for me. Selah
TLB
These proud men have set a trap to catch me, a noose to yank me up and leave me dangling in the air; they wait in ambush with a net to throw over and hold me helpless in its meshes.
MSG
God, get me out of here, away from this evil; protect me from these vicious people. All they do is think up new ways to be bad; they spend their days plotting war games. They practice the sharp rhetoric of hate and hurt, speak venomous words that maim and kill. God, keep me out of the clutch of these wicked ones, protect me from these vicious people; All boast and swagger, they plot ways to trip me up, determined to bring me down. These crooks invent traps to catch me and do their best to incriminate me.
MEV
The proud have hid a snare for me, and with cords they have spread a net; they have set traps for me. Selah
NOG
Arrogant people have laid a trap for me. They have spread out a net with ropes. They have set traps for me along the road. Selah
NABRE
Keep me, Lord, from the clutches of the wicked; preserve me from the violent, who plot to trip me up.
NASB
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and snares; They have spread a net at the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah
NASB1995
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.
NCB
Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from those who are violent, who are determined to cause my downfall.
NCV
The proud hid a trap for me. They spread out a net beside the road; they set traps for me. Selah
NET
Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path. They set traps for me. (Selah)
NIRV
Proud people have hidden their traps to catch me. They have spread out their nets. They have set traps for me along my path.
NIV
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.
NIVUK
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.
NKJV
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah
NLV
The proud have hidden a trap for me. With ropes they have spread a net. They have set traps for me beside the road.
NLT
The proud have set a trap to catch me; they have stretched out a net; they have placed traps all along the way. Interlude
NRSVA
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; along the road they have set snares for me.Selah
NRSVACE
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; along the road they have set snares for me.Selah
NRSVCE
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, along the road they have set snares for me.Selah
NRSVUE
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, along the road they have set snares for me. Selah
OJB
The ge’im (proud, arrogant ones [of inordinate ambition]) have hid a pach for me, and chavalim (cords, ropes); they have spread a reshet (net) close by the path; they have set mokshim (traps) for me. Selah.
RGT
The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net with cords in my pathway, and set traps for me. Selah.
RSV
Arrogant men have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, by the wayside they have set snares for me.Selah
RSVCE
Arrogant men have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, by the wayside they have set snares for me.Selah
TLV
Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked. Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.
VOICE
Those arrogant people are trying to catch me; they’ve laid their trap, hiding a net along my path; their traps are set, and I am the prey. [pause]
WEB
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
WYC
proud men hid a snare to me. And they laid forth cords into a snare; they setted (a) trap to me beside the way. (Proud people hid a snare for me, yea, they laid out cords for a snare; they set a trap for me along the way.)
YLT
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
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