KJV King James Version
Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.
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Psalm 69:22
Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
WEB World English Bible
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
ASV American Standard Version
Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence—for a trap.
Surrounding context — Psalm 69
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee.
20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.
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1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.Romans 11:8-10(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.1 Peter 2:8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.Isaiah 8:14-15And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.Malachi 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.
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