then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.’”

But the woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done. He has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why have you set a trap for my life to bring about my death?”

Elisha Traps Blinded Arameans

Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”

A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.

A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.

Can anyone capture it by the eyes, or trap it and pierce its nose?

Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge.

Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.

The arrogant dig pits to trap me, contrary to your law.

The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.

Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.

you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.

Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk, and so the innocent escape trouble.

It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows.

Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”

“Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them.

I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord.

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?

All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it.

Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar

Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.

But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?

Should we pay or shouldn’t we?” But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.

“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.

Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.