³ For he will deliver you from the snare of the hunter
    and from the deadly pestilence;^(A)

⁹ Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
    and from the snares of evildoers.^(A)

⁷ We have escaped like a bird
    from the snare of the hunters;
the snare is broken,
    and we have escaped.^(A)

¹⁰ He gives rain on the earth
    and sends waters on the fields;^(A)
11 he sets on high those who are lowly,
    and those who mourn are lifted to safety.^(B)
12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
    so that their hands achieve no success.^(C)
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness,
    and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime
    and grope at noonday as in the night.^(D)
15 But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth,
    from the hand of the mighty.^(E)
16 So the poor have hope,
    and injustice shuts its mouth.^(F)

²³     until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
    not knowing that it will cost him his life.^(A)

⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,^[a]
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.^(A)