diff --git a/scrapli/helper.py b/scrapli/helper.py
index f62d27c1..bd70e34c 100644
--- a/scrapli/helper.py
+++ b/scrapli/helper.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, TextIO, Tuple, Union
 from warnings import warn
 
-from scrapli.exceptions import ScrapliValueError
+from scrapli.exceptions import ScrapliException, ScrapliValueError
 from scrapli.logging import logger
 from scrapli.settings import Settings
 
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ def textfsm_parse(
                 structured_output=structured_output, header=re_table.header
             )
         return structured_output
-    except textfsm.parser.TextFSMError:
+    except textfsm.parser.TextFSMError as exc:
         logger.warning("failed to parse data with textfsm")
         if raise_err:
-            raise
+            raise ScrapliException(exc) from exc
     return []