Psalm 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Cross-references
Psalm 140:5 describes hidden traps and nets set by the arrogant — very similar to the net and pit here.
Psalm 119:85 directly mentions 'dug pitfalls' for the psalmist — identical language of enemies setting traps.
In Psalm 7:3-5, David similarly protests innocence, using the same phrase 'without cause' — both describe being attacked unjustly.
Psalm 9:15 uses the same pit and net imagery, but here the wicked fall into their own trap — a reversal of the situation.
Psalm 64:4 describes enemies shooting from ambush — the same hidden attack imagery as the net and pit here.
Psalm 142:3 explicitly mentions a hidden trap on the path, mirroring the net and pit, and adds that God knows the psalmist's way.
Psalm 7:15 depicts the wicked falling into the pit they dug, directly paralleling the pit imagery of Psalm 35:7.
Psalm 31:4 explicitly mentions a hidden net and God's rescue, closely matching the net imagery of Psalm 35:7.
Psalm 57:6 uses the same net and pit imagery, with the wicked falling into their own trap, paralleling Psalm 35:7.
Psalm 109:3 mentions being attacked 'without cause,' the exact phrase used in Psalm 35:7.
Psalm 109:4 describes being repaid with accusation for love, a specific instance of the undeserved hostility in Psalm 35:7.
Psalm 119:86 echoes persecution with falsehood and adds that God's commandments are sure, pleading for help.
Psalm 119:78 also describes being wronged with falsehood, adding that the insolent will be put to shame while the psalmist meditates on God's precepts.
Psalm 109:5 continues the theme of evil for good, paralleling the 'without cause' enmity of Psalm 35:7.
John 15:25 quotes 'They hated me without a cause' from a parallel psalm — Jesus applies the same unjust hatred to himself.
In 1 Samuel 26:18, David again asks why he is pursued without evil on his hands, echoing the 'without cause' theme.
In 1 Samuel 24:11, David's protest of innocence to Saul mirrors the psalmist's claim of being hunted without cause.
Proverbs 1:11 describes ambushing the innocent without reason, the same 'without cause' motif, warning against joining such schemes.
Jeremiah 18:20 also says 'they have dug a pit for my life', adding the irony of repaying good with evil and Jeremiah's intercession.
Lamentations 3:52 says enemies hunted him 'without cause', using a different image (bird hunting) but same unjust persecution.
Genesis 37:24 recounts Joseph being thrown into a pit by his brothers — an innocent sufferer, like the psalmist's pit without cause.
Job 18:8 uses net imagery for the wicked being caught, not for the innocent — a different application of the same metaphor.
Job 5:13 describes God catching the wise in their own craftiness, a reversal of the hidden nets in Psalm 35:7.
Numbers 35:20 describes lying in wait with hatred — a legal parallel to the malicious ambush depicted here.
Proverbs 24:28 warns against bearing false witness 'without cause', sharing the phrase but focusing on legal testimony rather than hidden traps.