Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
Parallel translations
- WEB For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
- KJV Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
- NKJV Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence.
- NASB For it is He who rescues you from the net of the trapper And from the deadly plague.
- NLT For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.
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Quick answer
God delivers His own from hidden traps and deadly disease.
Overview
Like a bird freed from a fowler's snare, the trusting believer is rescued from unseen dangers and lethal plague. The promise assures God's watchful deliverance, understood within the whole of Scripture, not as a guarantee against all hardship but as God's faithful care. Ultimate deliverance from every snare of evil comes through Christ (2 Tim. 4:18).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 124:7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
- Ps 141:9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
- Job 5:10–22He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- Prov 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- Prov 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Eccl 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- 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.
- Num 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- Ps 91:6nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- 1 Tim 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- Hos 9:8The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!
- Amos 3:5Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?
- Num 14:37–38those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- 1 Kgs 8:37When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
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