For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit; without cause they have dug for my soul.

The proud, who are not according to Your Law, have dug pits for me.

Yea, you throw down the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.

Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your wrath from them.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their own foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the lowly; let them be caught in the plots that they have devised.

Let destruction come upon him before he knows it, and let his net which he has concealed catch him; let him fall into that very destruction.

that You may give him rest from the evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the evil of their lips cover them;

let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass on in one piece.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it may return upon him.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a hedge may be bitten by a snake.

Whoever removes stones may be hurt by them; and he who splits wood may be endangered by it.