They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down - rather, as the Hebrew verb is transitive, and the enemies are the subject in the other verbs of the sentence, 'they bowed down my soul.'
They have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves - the theme of the praise in Psalms 57:5; namely, that with all their preparing of the net for the Psalmist, their bowing down his soul, and digging a pit, all their laborious malice has ended in their falling into their own pit; such is the righteous retribution of God!