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Let ruin overtake them unawares;
    let the snare they have set catch them;
    let them fall into the pit they have dug.(A)

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may ruin overtake them by surprise—(A)
    may the net they hid entangle them,
    may they fall into the pit,(B) to their ruin.

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26 Whoever digs a pit falls into it,
    and whoever lays a snare is caught in it.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 27:26 This expresses a popular idea of act and consequence; an evil (or good) deed is repaid by an evil (or good) result. The frequent metaphor is the digging of a hole for another to fall into; cf. Prv 26:27; Ps 7:14; 9:16; Eccl 10:8.
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