For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
This is one of David's songs growing out of his experiences amid treacherous enemies and showing trust in God. The Hebrew word shokhath rendered pit means destruction, so the complaint is that enemies have plotted the speaker's destruction without cause. It portrays an innocent sufferer whose foes secretly hid a net in a pit dug to destroy his life, laying hidden traps to take him without cause and without desert.
The plea looks to God's justice rather than to personal revenge. Like the other Psalms, this song also carries something of Christ's experience, so that David's experience here prophetically pictures Christ's struggles and gives a glimpse of the unjust opposition Christ endured.
This is one of David's songs growing out of his experiences amid treacherous enemies and showing trust in God. The Hebrew word shokhath rendered pit means destruction, so the complaint is that enemies have plotted the speaker's destruction without cause. It portrays an innocent sufferer whose foes secretly hid a net in a pit dug to destroy his life, laying hidden traps to take him without cause and without desert.
The plea looks to God's justice rather than to personal revenge. Like the other Psalms, this song also carries something of Christ's experience, so that David's experience here prophetically pictures Christ's struggles and gives a glimpse of the unjust opposition Christ endured.