Psalms 141:9

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

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

So Yahweh 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.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

For 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 snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

But 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.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Let 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.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.