- which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call it Senir -

Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?'

And he said, "I will give him her that she may be a snare to him, to bring the hand of the Philistines upon him." And Saul said to David, "Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law again."

And the children of half the tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir and unto mount Hermon, and they were many.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity?

Who dare lay a hand on him openly, and undertake to catch him? Or, who dare put a hook through his nose, and lay a snare for him?

Darest thou draw out Leviathan with an angle, or bind his tongue with a snare?

Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal; and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling.

For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.

The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but yet swerve I not from thy commandments.

Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and we are delivered.

The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords, yea and set traps in my way. Selah.

Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me, and from the traps of the wicked doers.

When my spirit is in heaviness, thou knowest my path: in the way wherein I walk have they privily laid a snare for me.

so long till she hath wounded his liver with her dart: like as if a bird hasted to the snare, not knowing that the peril of his life lieth thereupon.

A wise man will receive warning; but a fool will sooner be smitten in the face.

If the righteous be recompensed upon earth, how much more then the ungodly and the sinner?

The wicked falleth into the snare through the malice of his own mouth; but the just shall escape out of peril.

Righteousness keepeth the innocent in the way; but ungodliness shall overthrow the sinner.

which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

A fool's mouth is his own destruction, and his lips are the snare for his own soul.

It is a snare for a man to blaspheme that which is holy, and then to go about with vows.

The sin of the wicked is his own snare, but the righteous shall be glad and rejoice.

He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.

It happeneth unto one as unto another; It goeth with the righteous as with the ungodly; with the good and clean as with the unclean; with him that offereth as with him that offereth not; like as it goeth with the virtuous, so goeth it also with the sinner; As it happeneth unto the perjured, so happeneth it also unto him that is afraid to be foresworn.

For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.

Come to me from Lebanon, O my spouse, come to me from Lebanon: come soon the next way from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, and from the mountains of the leopards.

For he is the sanctifying, and stone to stumble at, the rock to fall upon, a snare and net to both the houses: to Israel, and the inhabiters of Jerusalem.

Fearfulness, the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou that dwellest upon the earth.

It will come to pass, that whoso escapeth the terrible cry, shall fall in to the pit. And if he come out of the pit, he shall be taken with the snare. For the windows above shall be opened, and the foundations of the earth shall move.

But it is a mischevious and wicked people. Their young men belong all to the snare, and shall be shut into prison houses. They shall be carried away captive, and no man shall loose them. They shall be trodden under foot, and no man shall labour to bring them again.

neither have I sent them, sayeth the LORD: howbeit they are bold, falsely for to prophesy in my name: that I might the sooner drive you out, and that ye might perish with your preachers.'"

Fear, pit, and snare shall come upon thee, O Moab, sayeth the LORD.

Whoso escapeth the fear, shall fall in the pit: and whoso getteth out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring a year of visitation upon Moab, sayeth the LORD.

Fear and snare is come upon us; yea, despite and destruction.

For I desire not the death of a sinner, saith the Lord Jehovah, but rather that he should turn from his way, and live.

All thy tables have they made of Cypress trees of the mount Senir. From Lebanon have they taken Cedar trees, to make the masts:

O ye priests, hear this; take heed, O thou household of Israel; give ear, O thou kingly house. For this punishment will come upon you, that are become a snare unto Mizphah, and a spread net unto the mount of Tabor.

Ephraim hath made himself a watchman of my God, a prophet that is become a snare to do hurt in every street, and abomination in the house of his God.

Doth a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no fouler is? Taketh a man his snare up from the ground, afore he catch somewhat?

And behold a woman in that city, which was a sinner, as soon as she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster box of ointment,

When the Pharisee which bade him to his house, saw that, he spake within himself, saying, "If this man were a prophet, he would surely have known who and what manner woman this is which toucheth him, for she is a sinner."

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Likewise I say unto you, Joy is made in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."

Sooner shall heaven and earth perish, than one tittle of the law shall perish.

And the publican stood afar off, and would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me, a sinner.'

And when they saw that, they all grudged saying, "He is gone in to tarry with a man that is a sinner."

For as a snare shall it come on all them that sit on the face of the earth.

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day." Others said, "How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?" And there was strife among them.

Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, "Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner."

He answered and said, "Whether he be a sinner or no, I cannot tell. One thing I am sure of: that I was blind, and now I see."

If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?

And David saith, "Let their table be made a snare to take them withal, and an occasion to fall, and a reward unto them.

This speak I for your profit, not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comely unto you; And that ye may quietly cleave unto the Lord without separation.

He must also be well reported of among them which are without forth, lest he fall into rebuke, and into the snare of the evil speaker.

that they may come to themselves again out of the snare of the devil, which are now taken of him at his will.

let the same know, that he which converted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide the multitude of sins. {Here ends the General Epistle of James}

And if the righteous scarcely be saved: where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?