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The proud have dug pits for me, Contrary to your law.
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The Tactics of the Enemy
Commentators explain that "digging pits" is a metaphor for deceitful, underhanded attacks. The psalmist's enemies were not engaging in open conflict but were setting secret traps and snares. They sought to tempt him into sin or create a fault where none existed, much like a hunter trapping an unsuspecting animal.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The proud – Those in high life, or of exalted rank. See the notes at Psalms 119:51.
Have dug pits for me – See the notes at Ps…
19th Century
Anglican
Which. —Better, who. Its antecedent, of course, the proud, not the pits.
Baptist
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
They might make pits for lions and tigers, but not for sheep.
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16th Century
Protestant
The proud have dug pits for me. He complains that he had been deceived by the frauds and cunning devices of his enemies, as if he were say…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The proud have digged pits for me Laid snares and temptations in his way, to draw him into sin, and so into mischief…
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his enemies, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed from looking out for this …
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