Psalm 69:22 {68:23}
Good News Translation
May their banquets cause their ruin; may their sacred feasts cause their downfall.

New Revised Standard Version
Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.

Contemporary English Version
Make their table a trap for them and their friends.

New American Bible
May their own table be a snare for them, and their communion offerings a trap.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

Let their table.

Proverbs 1:32 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Romans 11:8-10 As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day. . . .

a trap

Isaiah 8:14,15 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. . . .

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
21And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.23Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.…
Cross References
Romans 11:9
And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them.

Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Psalm 69:21
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