Reference: Fowler
Easton
the arts of, referred to Ps 91:3; 124:7; Pr 6:5; Jer 5:26; Ho 9:8; Eze 17:20; Ec 9:12. Birds of all kinds abound in Palestine, and the capture of these for the table and for other uses formed the employment of many persons. The traps and snares used for this purpose are mentioned Ho 5:1; Pr 7:23; 22:5; Am 3:5; Ps 69:22; comp. De 22:6-7.
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"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.
For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper And from the deadly pestilence.
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper; The snare is broken and we have escaped.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards himself will be far from them.
Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.
"I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare Then I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.
Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, For you have been a snare at Mizpah And a net spread out on Tabor.
Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
Hastings
Morish
Used symbolically for Satan, from whose snares God delivers His saints. Ps 91:3; 124:7; Pr 6:5. In the punishment of Israel their prophets became as the snare of the fowler. Ho 9:8.
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For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper And from the deadly pestilence.
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper; The snare is broken and we have escaped.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.