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Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

8For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
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The prayer for the wicked to fall into their own nets speaks to the longing for both judgment and escape from harm.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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1 Corinthians 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”The psalm asks for evildoers to be caught in their own devices; Paul describes God catching the wise in their craftiness.
Psalm 7:15He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.The net and the pit share the same reversal: the trap catches the person who made it.
Psalm 35:8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.Both prayers ask that a hidden net catch its maker, with Psalm 35 naming the desired outcome as destruction.
Psalm 140:9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.Both prayers ask for the harm devised by threatening people to fall back upon those same people.
Esther 7:9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king, said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for …The king orders Haman onto the gallows prepared for Mordecai, sharing the psalm’s requested reversal of a trap against its maker.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.Haman dies on the gallows he prepared for Mordecai, a concrete instance of harm returning to the one who devised it.
Proverbs 11:8A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.Both passages pair escape from trouble with the wicked falling into the danger from which another person is delivered.
Esther 9:25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and …The psalm asks for harm to return to its makers; Esther records the king’s command that Haman’s wicked plan return on his own head.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

The speaker seeks refuge in God as he asks for judgment on those setting traps. His plea for escape gives no license to set traps in return.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).