KJV King James Version
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.
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Psalm 91:3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
WEB World English Bible
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
ASV American Standard Version
For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.
Surrounding context — Psalm 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the arrow [that] flieth by day;
6 [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.
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Psalm 124:7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.Psalm 141:9Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.Job 5:10-22Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:Proverbs 7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.Proverbs 6:5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.Ecclesiastes 9:12For 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.2 Timothy 2:26And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.Numbers 16:46-48And 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.1 Timothy 6:9But 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.2 Samuel 24:15So 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 Beersheba seventy thousand men.Psalm 91:6[Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.Amos 3:5Can 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?Numbers 14:37-38Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.Hosea 9:8The 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.1 Kings 8:37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];
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