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. 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.
The speaker is beset by haughty foes who secretly lay devices to entrap him. They hide cords and stretch a net beside the path where he walks, while fixing snares to seize him. The word for gins denotes such traps or snares for catching prey. The closing Selah signals a pause to reflect on what has been set forth.