Psalm 91:3

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Summary

Psalm 91:3

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Snare

And from

Job 5:10

Bible References

Snare

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.

Keep me from the

jaws of the trap which they have set for me,

And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

Until an arrow pierces through his liver;
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

And from

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”

So the Lord

sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

“He gives rain on the earth
And sends water on the fields,