If thou chance upon a bird's nest by the way, in whatsoever tree it be or on the ground, whether they be young or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take the mother with the young. But shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy days.

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.

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

Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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.

Spears and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such.

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.

For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.

I will cast my net about him, and catch him in my yarn. To Babylon will I carry him: there will I punish him, because of the great offense that he made me.

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?

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

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

Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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.