King James Version
Psalms 9:15 in the King James Version says “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.”
Psalms 9:15 · KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. Higgaion: that is, Meditation
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“taken”
H3920to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere
“is their own foot”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
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