Psalms 7:15

15 He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Psalms 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 7:15

He made a pit and digged it
That is, he digged a pit, and made it very large and capacious, to answer his purposes;

and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made;
so it is said of the Heathen, ( Psalms 9:15 ) ; and is exemplified in the case of Haman, who was hanged upon the gallows he had built for Mordecai. Kimchi explains this of Saul's falling upon his own sword, and dying by it, which he drew against David; phrase is proverbial, ( Proverbs 26:27 ) ( Ecclesiastes 10:8 ) ; the sense of this and the above figurative expressions is literally and properly given in ( Psalms 7:16 ) .

Psalms 7:15 In-Context

13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

15 He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

16 His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

17 I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.