Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be thorns in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.’ ”

Then Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, Ophrah. And all Israel played the harlot with it there. It became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall be my son-in-law today.”

Then the woman said to him, “Look, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”

The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks into a snare.

The net takes him by the heel, And a snare lays hold of him.

Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,

Though he takes it in his eyes, Or one pierces his nose with a snare.

God’s Power in the Leviathan

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?

The Lord is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah

The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Those also who seek my life lay snares for me; Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, And plan deception all the day long.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, “Who will see them?”

Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap.

Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence.

They served their idols, Which became a snare to them.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.