Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Parallel translations
- WEB For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
- BSB Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
- 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
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- Ps 124:7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
- Ps 141:9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- Job 5:10–22Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- Prov 7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
- Prov 6:5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Eccl 9:12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
- 2 Tim 2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
- Num 16:46–48And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
- Ps 91:6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
- 1 Tim 6:9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- Hos 9:8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
- Amos 3:5Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
- Num 14:37–38Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- 1 Kgs 8:37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
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