⁸ Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

³ Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,

⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

⁵ And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.

¹¹ Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

²² The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

⁹ Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

¹⁰ Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

⁷ But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

⁶ They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

¹⁵ The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

¹⁵ He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

¹⁶ His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

¹⁰ So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

¹⁴ Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

¹⁵ And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

²³ Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.

² And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

³ And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

⁴ And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.

² And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

³ And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.

⁴ Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.

¹⁷ And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.