Psalms 69:22

69:22 May their dining table become a trap before them!

May it be a snare for that group of friends! ¹ 

Psalms 91:3

91:3 he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter ² 

and from the destructive plague.

Psalms 119:110

119:110 The wicked lay a trap for me,

but I do not wander from your precepts.

Psalms 141:9

141:9 Protect me from the snare they have laid for me,

and the traps the evildoers have set. ³ 

[69:22]  ¹ tc Heb “and to the friends for a snare.” The plural of שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) is used in Ps 55:20 of one’s “friends.” If the reading of the MT is retained here, the term depicts the psalmist’s enemies as a close-knit group of friends who are bound together by their hatred for the psalmist. Some prefer to revocalize the text as וּלְשִׁלּוּמִים (ulÿshillumim, “and for retribution”). In this case the noun stands parallel to פַּח (pakh, “trap”) and מוֹקֵשׁ (moqesh, “snare”), and one might translate, “may their dining table become a trap before them, [a means of] retribution and a snare” (cf. NIV).

[91:3]  ² tn The word refers specifically to a fowler (or hunter of birds).

[141:9]  ³ tn Heb “and the traps of the doers of evil.”