Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Parallel translations
- KJV Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
- BSB We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
- 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 91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
- Prov 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- 2 Tim 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
- Ps 25:15My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
- 1 Sam 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
- 1 Sam 23:26–27Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
- 2 Sam 17:21–22After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
- Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
- 2 Sam 17:2I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
- Jer 5:26For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
- 1 Sam 24:14–15Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
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