17 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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21 (A)There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

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22 (A)Let their own (B)table before them become a snare;
    (C)and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:22 Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap

19     (A)as if a man fled from a lion,
    and a bear met him,
or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,
    and a serpent bit him.
20 (B)Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
    and gloom with no brightness in it?

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23 (A)One's pride will bring him low,
    (B)but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

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40 (A)he pours contempt on princes
    and (B)makes them wander (C)in trackless wastes;

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35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like (B)a green laurel tree.[a]
36 But he passed away,[b] and behold, (C)he was no more;
    though I sought him, he could not be found.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain
  2. Psalm 37:36 Or But one passed by

11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
    and look on everyone who is (A)proud and abase him.
12 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low
    and (B)tread down the wicked (C)where they stand.

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His strong steps are shortened,
    and his (A)own schemes throw him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
    and he walks on its mesh.
(B)A trap seizes him by the heel;
    a snare lays hold of him.
10 A rope is hidden for him in the ground,
    a trap for him in the path.
11 (C)Terrors frighten him on every side,
    and chase him at his heels.
12 His strength is famished,
    and calamity is (D)ready for his stumbling.

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19 He leads priests away stripped
    and overthrows the mighty.
20 He deprives of speech those who are trusted
    (A)and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21 He (B)pours contempt on princes
    and loosens the belt of the strong.

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24 “Most blessed of women be (A)Jael,
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,
    of tent-dwelling women most blessed.

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“In the days of (A)Shamgar, son of Anath,
    in the days of (B)Jael, (C)the highways were abandoned,
    and travelers kept to the byways.

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