Reference: Fowler
Easton
the arts of, referred to Ps 91:3; 124:7; Pr 6:5; Jer 5:26; Ho 9:8; Eze 17:20; Ec 9:12. Birds of all kinds abound in Palestine, and the capture of these for the table and for other uses formed the employment of many persons. The traps and snares used for this purpose are mentioned Ho 5:1; Pr 7:23; 22:5; Am 3:5; Ps 69:22; comp. De 22:6-7.
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If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young: See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.
Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.
He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.
Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?
Hastings
Morish
Used symbolically for Satan, from whose snares God delivers His saints. Ps 91:3; 124:7; Pr 6:5. In the punishment of Israel their prophets became as the snare of the fowler. Ho 9:8.
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He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.