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Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”
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Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.”
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Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
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You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
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then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.
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And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.’”
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Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
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“I will give her to him,” he thought, “so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.”
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The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
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That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,
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On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
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to keep the godless from ruling, from laying snares for the people.
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The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
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My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
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They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see it?”
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May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.
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Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
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They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
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The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from your precepts.
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We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
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The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.
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Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
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When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who watch over my way. In the path where I walk people have hidden a snare for me.
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for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared.
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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.
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The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.
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The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.
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The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.
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A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.
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In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
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Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.
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Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
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I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.
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Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
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He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.
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Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”
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Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth.
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Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
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So then, the word of the Lord to them will become: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there— so that as they go they will fall backward; they will be injured and snared and captured.
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“Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.
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Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring invaders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
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Terror and pit and snare await you, you people of Moab,” declares the Lord.
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“Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring on Moab the year of her punishment,” declares the Lord.
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I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.
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I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there because he was unfaithful to me.
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Judgment Against Israel
“Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
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The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
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And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.