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Psalm 91

Psa. 91:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Surelyd he shall deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
thee from the snare
pach (Hebrew #6341)
a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)
KJV usage: gin, (thin) plate, snare.
Pronounce: pakh
Origin: from 6351
of the fowler
yaquwsh (Hebrew #3353)
properly, entangled, i.e. by implication (intransitively) a snare, or (transitive) a snarer
KJV usage: fowler, snare.
Pronounce: yaw-koosh'
Origin: passive participle of 3369
, and from the noisome
havvah (Hebrew #1942)
desire; also ruin
KJV usage: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Pronounce: hav-vaw'
Origin: from 1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling)
pestilence
deber (Hebrew #1698)
a pestilence
KJV usage: murrain, pestilence, plague.
Pronounce: deh'-ber
Origin: from 1696 (in the sense of destroying)
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Psa. 124:7• 7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. (Psa. 124:7)

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Fowler,
Pestilence,
Snare

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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snare.
Psa. 124:7• 7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. (Psa. 124:7)
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Psa. 141:9• 9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. (Psa. 141:9)
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Prov. 7:23• 23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. (Prov. 7:23)
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Eccl. 9:12• 12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. (Eccl. 9:12)
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Hos. 9:8• 8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. (Hos. 9:8)
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Amos 3:5• 5Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? (Amos 3:5)
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1 Tim. 6:9• 9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. (1 Tim. 6:9)
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2 Tim. 2:26• 26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. (2 Tim. 2:26)
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Psa. 91:6• 6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. (Psa. 91:6)
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Num. 14:37‑38• 37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. (Num. 14:37‑38)
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Num. 16:46‑48• 46And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.
 47And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
 48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. (Num. 16:46‑48)
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2 Sam. 24:15• 15So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. (2 Sam. 24:15)
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Job 5:10‑22• 10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
 11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
 13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
 15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
 16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
 17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
 18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
 19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
 20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
 21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
 22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. (Job 5:10‑22)
• {v.3-7} Faith thus, in its confession of His name, makes its refuge and strong tower, and moreover trusts in it: a great thing, for no power of evil, no cause of distress can be anything to upset the mind, if the Lord be looked to and trusted in. It has here the promise of ever watchful and protecting care. This is true whatever outward evil may come. As we see in Luke 21:16-18, the Lord says some of them should be put to death, but not a hair of their head should perish—they were all counted. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 90-93” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 3-8) In these verses the Spirit of God addresses Christ, unfolding the blessings that flow to the one who dwells in the secret place of the Most High. (“Psalms 91” by H. Smith)
• The perils of the tribulation described under twelve different figures, cannot touch them because they have made the Lord their refuge (vs. 3-13). (“Book 4.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Surelya *he* shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the destructive pestilence.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "For."