Psalm 69:22
New International Version
May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.

New Living Translation
Let the bountiful table set before them become a snare and their prosperity become a trap.

English Standard Version
Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.

Berean Standard Bible
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

King James Bible
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

New King James Version
Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap.

New American Standard Bible
May their table before them become a snare; And when they are at peace, may it become a trap.

NASB 1995
May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

NASB 1977
May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

Legacy Standard Bible
May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

Amplified Bible
May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them]; And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.

Christian Standard Bible
Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies.

American Standard Version
Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Let their table be a snare before them, and their reward a stumbling block.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling-block.

Contemporary English Version
Make their table a trap for them and their friends.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

English Revised Version
Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let the table set for them become a trap and a snare for their friends.

Good News Translation
May their banquets cause their ruin; may their sacred feasts cause their downfall.

International Standard Version
May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

Literal Standard Version
Their table before them is for a snare, | And for a repayment—for a trap.

Majority Standard Bible
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

New American Bible
May their own table be a snare for them, and their communion offerings a trap.

NET Bible
May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

New Revised Standard Version
Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.

New Heart English Bible
Let their table before them become a snare, and a retribution, and a trap, and a stumbling block.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

World English Bible
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Young's Literal Translation
Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst. 22May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap. 23May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.…

Cross References
Romans 11:9
And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

Romans 11:10
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."

1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, "Peace and security," destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.


Treasury of Scripture

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

Let their table.

Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

Romans 11:8-10
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day…

a trap

Isaiah 8:14,15
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem…

1 Peter 2:8
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

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Psalm 69
1. David complains of his affliction
13. He prays for deliverance
22. He devotes his enemies to destruction
30. He praises God with thanksgiving














(22) Let their table.--The form of this imprecation is, of course, suggested by the figurative language immediately preceding. Life had been made bitter by rancour and enmity, and the psalmist hurls back his curses, couched in the terms which had arisen to his lips to express his own misery.

And that which.--Rather, and to them in peace a noose. Seated at the banquet, amid every sign of peace, and every means of enjoyment, let their surroundings of security and pleasure become their snare and ruin. (Comp. 1Thessalonians 5:3. See St. Paul's citation, Romans 11:9, New Testament Commentary.)

Verses 22-29. - The imagination of the cruelties to be inflicted on his innocent Descendant works up the psalmist to a pitch of passionate resentment, which finds vent in a series of bitter imprecations, very distasteful to many. They are less startling, however, than some to be found elsewhere, as in Psalm 102. We may view them either as an outpouring of righteous indignation upon the enemies, not of David only, but of God; or as a series of prophetic denunciations, whereby the wicked of David's time were warned of the consequences of such wickedness as theirs, and stimulated to repentance. Verse 22. - Let their table become a snare before them. It is not very clear how their table was to ensnare them: perhaps by encouraging them to gluttony and sensuousness, and bringing upon them the diseases which those sins breed; perhaps by leading them to an ostentatious display of wealth and luxury (comp. Ezekiel 23:40, 41). And that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. Let them be trapped by the good things of their table, like a wild beast by a bait.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
May their table
יְהִֽי־ (yə·hî-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

become
שֻׁלְחָנָ֣ם (šul·ḥā·nām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7979: A table, a meal

a snare;
לְפָ֑ח (lə·p̄āḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6341: A, sheet, a spring net

may it be a retribution
וְלִשְׁלוֹמִ֥ים (wə·liš·lō·w·mîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

and a trap.
לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ׃ (lə·mō·w·qêš)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4170: A bait or lure, a snare


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