Psalm 35:8
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Note at…: Heb. which he knoweth not of
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Let destruction
- All the verbs in these verses, (ver. 4-8,) in the original, are in the future tense, as a prediction, and should probably be so rendered; though as that tense is frequently used in Hebrew for the imperative, most translators, both ancient and modern, have considered them as an imprecation.
- Psalm 64:7; Psalm 73:18–20; Proverbs 29:1; Luke 21:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
- at unawares
- Heb. which he knoweth not of. net.
- Psalm 7:15, 16; Psalm 57:6; Psalm 141:9, 10; Proverbs 5:22
- into
- 1 Samuel 18:17; 1 Samuel 31:2–4; 2 Samuel 17:2–4, 23; 2 Samuel 18:14, 15; Esther 7:10; Matthew 27:3–5