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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'When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones; thou dost certainly send away the mother, and the young ones dost take to thyself, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast prolonged days.
Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap.
For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.
Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.
Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.
Thorns -- snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.
For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.
And I have spread out for him My snare, And he hath been caught in My net, And I have brought him in to Babylon, And pleaded with him there his trespass, That he hath trespassed against Me.
Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.
Ephraim is looking away from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler is over all his ways, Hatred is in the house of his God.
Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not?
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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For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.
Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.
Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Ephraim is looking away from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler is over all his ways, Hatred is in the house of his God.