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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.
