Psalms 119:110

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
wicked	רְשָׁעִ֣ים re.sha.'Im	H7563	morally wrong · noun, common masculine plural absolute
laid	נָתְנ֬וּ na.te.Nu	H5414	to give · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
snare	פַּ֣ח pach	H6341	a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
erred	תָעִֽיתִי ta.'I.ti	H8582	to vacillate · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
precepts	וּ֝מִפִּקּוּדֶ֗יךָ u.mip.pi.ku.Dei.cha	H6490	properly · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Psalms 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Psalms 140:5 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.
Psalms 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Psalms 119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
Psalms 10:8-18 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poo…
Psalms 124:6-7 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snare…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:109-110

Here is, 1. David in danger of losing his life. There is but a step between him and death, for the wicked have laid a snare for him; Saul did so many a time, because he hated him for his piety. Wherever he was he found some design or other laid against him to take away his life, for it was that they aimed at. What they could not effect by open force they hoped to compass by treachery, which made him say, My soul is continually in my hand. It was so with him, not only as a man (so it is true of us all; wherever we are we lie exposed to the strokes of death; what we carry in our hands is easily snatched away from us by violence, or if sandy, as our life is, it easily of itself slips through ou…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:110

The wicked have laid a snare for me,.... To draw him into sin, and so into mischief; and even to take away his life, as they are said to dig pits for him, Psalm 119:85; yet I erred not from thy precepts: not wilfully and wickedly, though through inadvertence and infirmity, as he often did, and every good man does; and indeed his errors are so many, that they cannot be understood and numbered. The sense is, he kept on in the way of his duty; did not desist from that, or wickedly depart from his God, and his worship, to escape the snares of bad men.

John Calvin on Psalms 119:105-112

Psalm 119:105-112 n 105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. n 106. I have sworn, and will conform, to keep thy righteous judgments. n 107. I am greatly afflicted, O Jehovah! quicken me according to thy word. n 108. O Jehovah! I beseech thee let the free-will-offerings of my mouth be acceptable to thee, and teach me thy judgments. n 109. My soul is continually in my hand; and I have not forgotten thy law. n 110. The wicked have laid a snare for me; and, have not erred from thy statutes. n 111. I have thy testimonies as an inheritance forever; for they are the joy of my heart. n 112. I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes forever, to the end. 105. Thy word is a…

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The Church Fathers

"The ungodly," he says, "have laid a snare for me: but yet I swerved not from Your commandments" [Psalm 119:110]. Whence this, unless because his soul is in the hands of God, or in his own hands is offered to God to be quickened?
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Persecution · OF THE RIGHTEOUS — OF THE RIGHTEOUS

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 119:110

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:109-110

John Gill on Psalms 119:110

John Calvin on Psalms 119:105-112

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:110

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:109-110

John Gill on Psalms 119:110

John Calvin on Psalms 119:105-112

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:105-112

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:108-112