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Psalms 91:3
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the LORD directly in v.2, then shifts to third person ("He") to state what God will do for the one who has declared trust. The moment is a confident declaration, not a plea.
The words — דְּבֶר (dĕvĕr) literally means "word" or "saying" but here carries the sense of a deadly pestilence, as if the plague itself is a spoken word of destruction.
The thread — The exact phrase "snare of the fowler" (פַּח יָקוּשׁ) recurs in Psalms 124:7, where the community of Israel testifies to having escaped as a bird from the same trap.
Why it lands — The verse presents deliverance as a settled fact ("Surely He will"), not a conditional promise, asking the reader to hold the trust of v.2 as sufficient ground for expecting rescue from named, specific threats.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Cross-references
- Psalms 124:7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
- Psalms 141:9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
- Job 5:10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- Proverbs 7:23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- Proverbs 6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- 2 Timothy 2:26 Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.
- Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- 2 Samuel 24:15 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- Psalms 91:6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.