For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.

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

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare

(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper's net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

If a man walks with wind and lies falsely, saying, I will drop words to you for wine and for strong drink, he shall even be a dropper of words for this people.

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.