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Psalm 124:7

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

5Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.
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Notice

The broken snare makes the relief of escape concrete: the bird was within the hunter’s reach, and the people remember how close destruction came.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.Both passages picture rescue from a fowler’s snare; Psalm 124 celebrates escape, while Psalm 91 speaks of deliverance to come.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the …Both passages speak of escape through God’s help, though Corinthians addresses temptation and endurance rather than a hunter’s trap.
Proverbs 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.Both use a bird escaping a fowler’s snare, with Proverbs urging action and the psalm celebrating an escape already accomplished.
2 Timothy 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.Both describe escape from a snare; Timothy names the captor as the devil, while the psalm uses a hunter’s image.
Psalm 25:15My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.Both psalms connect freedom from a trap with the LORD’s help, one expressing trust and the other celebrating escape.
1 Samuel 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling …Both passages describe lives threatened by enemies and speak of safety with the LORD’s help.
1 Samuel 23:26–27Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his …David’s encirclement shares the psalm’s sense of being trapped, though the supplied verse describes danger without yet reporting escape.
2 Samuel 17:21–22Both concern escape from danger, though the warning to David urges flight while the psalm celebrates escape accomplished.
Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.Both use snares to describe hostile threats; Jeremiah asks for judgment on his attackers, while the psalm celebrates escape.
1 Samuel 24:14–15Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?Both portray vulnerability before a pursuer through small creatures: a trapped bird in the psalm, a dog and flea in David’s speech.
2 Samuel 17:2I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,Both portray a threat to life, though Samuel records an attacker’s plan and the psalm celebrates escape from danger.
Jeremiah 5:26For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.Both use a fowler’s trap to portray danger to people; Jeremiah describes the captors, while the psalm celebrates the broken snare.
Where this verse fits

Answered prayer. gratitude. praise and worship.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Thank God for one specific escape from danger

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Encouragement

The danger in this song was real, and so was the escape. The surrounding verses name the source of that help: YHWH, who made heaven and earth.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).