a snare unto us] Or an offence, as some read: or an occasion of all these evils: so are the godly charged, as Elias by Ahab: the sinne and the blame should goe together; but the wicked procure judgement on themselves, and impute their plagues to the godly, who would reclaime them, and secure them, Chap. 23. 33. Joshua 23:13. 1 Samuel 18:21.