Holy Scripture

Psalms 7:15

A church father on this verse
“We do not find the name of "pit" ever assigned in the divine Scriptures in the case of something good or a "well" of water in the case of something bad. As to the reason for the pits being assigned among the worse things and the wells among the better, we think it is this. The water in the pit is something acquired, h…”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 11:8 (PS 7)

Source: Septuagint

Original

15Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, He has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

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13If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; He has bent his bow, and made it ready.

14And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; He has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

— Psalms 7:15 —

16He has opened a pit, and dug it up, And he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

17His trouble shall return on his own head, And his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

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