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Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

13Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
14that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
16The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
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The hidden net catches its maker, a grim reversal that can bring relief at evil’s defeat and unease about the harm people devise.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 33:10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.Both passages describe the defeat of nations’ designs, with Psalm 33 naming the LORD as the one who frustrates them.
Proverbs 26:27Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.Both texts describe a pit becoming the downfall of the person or people who dug it.
Psalm 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.Both passages use nets and pits to describe harm prepared for others turning back on those who prepared it.
Psalm 7:15–16He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.Both verses portray someone falling into a pit of their own making.
Proverbs 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.Both texts picture wrongdoers caught in a snare connected to their own deeds.
Psalm 35:8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.Psalm 35 asks for a hidden net to catch its maker; Psalm 9 describes that reversal as having happened.
Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.Both verses picture feet caught in a net, though only Psalm 9 says the trapped people hid it.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.Both passages connect harmful action with trouble returning upon the person responsible.
Proverbs 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from the LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.Both passages concern wicked designs meeting judgment, with Proverbs naming the LORD’s condemnation and the psalm depicting the trap’s reversal.
Exodus 21:33“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,Both mention a dug pit into which someone falls, though Exodus concerns livestock rather than the pit’s maker.
Numbers 16:33So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.Both portray people going down into destruction, though Numbers does not describe a trap they made.
Esther 5:14Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on …Both texts describe preparations for harm, but the supplied Esther verse stops before any reversal occurs.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

The surrounding prayer still names affliction, so this reversal offers no timetable for your relief. Yet the nations’ traps do not escape YHWH’s judgment.

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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).