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Psalm 91:3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
4He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
5You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,
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A birdcatcher’s trap and a deadly disease name dangers beyond human control, making the promise of God’s deliverance both welcome and hard to grasp.
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Psalm 124:7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.Both use the fowler’s snare: Psalm 91 promises deliverance, while Psalm 124 describes escape from a broken trap.
Psalm 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.The snare appears in both passages, as a danger God delivers from and a trap the speaker asks God to prevent.
Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.Both ground confidence in the Lord’s protection against being caught.
Job 5:10–22who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;The supplied Job verse shares only the broad thread of God acting on earth; it describes rain, not deliverance from danger.
Proverbs 7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.Both picture a bird’s snare as a mortal danger; Proverbs describes the bird’s ignorance, while the psalm promises deliverance.
Proverbs 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.Both name the fowler’s snare, with Proverbs urging escape and the psalm declaring that God will deliver.
Ecclesiastes 9:12For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men …Both use trapped birds to portray danger; Ecclesiastes stresses its sudden arrival, while Psalm 91 speaks of God’s deliverance.
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 speak of escape from a snare, though Timothy names the devil as the captor.
Psalm 91:6nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.Both verses name pestilence among the dangers addressed by the psalm’s assurance of God’s protection.
1 Timothy 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.Both use a snare to describe deadly danger; Timothy identifies the determination to become rich as a path into that trap.
2 Samuel 24:15So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.Both name pestilence as deadly; Samuel records the Lord sending it, while the psalm promises deliverance from it.
Numbers 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; …Both concern a deadly plague; Numbers describes its outbreak and Moses directing Aaron to make atonement, while the psalm promises deliverance.
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The snare and the pestilence are real threats in this poem. Its confidence rests in God’s power to deliver, rather than your ability to foresee every danger.
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