We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
- KJV Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
- NKJV Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
- NASB Our souls have escaped like a bird from the trapper’s snare; The snare is broken and we have escaped.
- NLT We escaped like a bird from a hunter’s trap. The trap is broken, and we are free!
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Quick answer
Their soul has escaped like a bird from the snare; the snare is broken and they are free. God shattered the trap and set His people free.
Overview
The psalmist pictures the people as a bird freed from a 'fowler's snare,' with the trap itself 'broken.' The deliverance is complete: not merely an escape but the destruction of the trap. This vivid freedom anticipates the liberty Christ gives, breaking the snares of sin and death for His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 91:3Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
- Prov 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- 2 Tim 2:26Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.
- Ps 25:15My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
- 1 Sam 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- 1 Sam 23:26–27Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
- 2 Sam 17:21–22After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
- Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
- 2 Sam 17:2I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
- Jer 5:26For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- 1 Sam 24:14–15Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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