For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.
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.
- 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.
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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).
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Cross-references · 15
- Ps 124:7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
- Ps 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
- Job 5:10–22who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- Prov 7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost 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 man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
- 2 Tim 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
- Num 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
- Ps 91:6nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
- 2 Sam 24:15So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
- 1 Tim 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
- Hos 9:8A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
- Amos 3:5Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?
- Num 14:37–38even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
- 1 Kgs 8:37“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
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