If a bird's nest should chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother bird with the young. You shall surely let the mother bird go, and take only the young, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

Let their own table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare to them; and when they are secure in peace [or at their sacrificial feasts, let it become] a trap to them.

For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

We are like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

Deliver yourself, as a roe or gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Till a dart [of passion] pierces and inflames his vitals; then like a bird fluttering straight into the net [he hastens], not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them.

For man also knows not his time [of death]: as the fishes are taken in an evil net, and as the birds are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when [calamity] falls suddenly upon them.

For among My people are found wicked men; they watch like fowlers who lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

And I will spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment and punishment with him there for his trespass and treason that he has committed against Me.

Hear this, O you priests! And listen, O house of Israel! And give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment pronounced pertains to you and is meant for you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor [military strongholds on either side of the Jordan River].

Ephraim was [intended to be] a watchman with my God [and a prophet to the surrounding nations]; but he, that prophet, has become a fowler's snare in all his ways. There is enmity, hostility, and persecution in the house of his God.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where there is no trap for him? Does a trap spring up from the ground when nothing at all has sprung it?

For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

We are like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

Deliver yourself, as a roe or gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Ephraim was [intended to be] a watchman with my God [and a prophet to the surrounding nations]; but he, that prophet, has become a fowler's snare in all his ways. There is enmity, hostility, and persecution in the house of his God.