If he snatches someone in death, who can stop him? Who dares to ask, ‘What are you doing?’

They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.

“The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan.

Lord, have mercy on me. See how my enemies torment me. Snatch me back from the jaws of death.

Snatch me from the lion’s jaws and from the horns of these wild oxen.

But as for me, God will redeem my life. He will snatch me from the power of the grave. Interlude

He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death.

Do not snatch your word of truth from me, for your regulations are my only hope.

If you can’t pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you.

It sits at the head of a fertile valley, but its glorious beauty will fade like a flower. Whoever sees it will snatch it up, as an early fig is quickly picked and eaten.

“From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.”

Who can snatch the plunder of war from the hands of a warrior? Who can demand that a tyrant let his captives go?

Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns will soon be snatched from your heads.”

I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O Lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death!

Oh, people of Judah, shave your heads in sorrow, for the children you love will be snatched away. Make yourselves as bald as a vulture, for your little ones will be exiled to distant lands.

And the Lord said to Satan, “I, the Lord, reject your accusations, Satan. Yes, the Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you. This man is like a burning stick that has been snatched from the fire.”

I will grab the bloody meat from their mouths and snatch the detestable sacrifices from their teeth. Then the surviving Philistines will worship our God and become like a clan in Judah. The Philistines of Ekron will join my people, as the ancient Jebusites once did.