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King James Version

Psalms 124:7

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Birds;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bird;   Fowler;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bird;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Fowler;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallel;   Hunting;   Psalms;   Snares;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fowler;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Degrees;   Psalms the book of;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Fowler;   Hezekiah (2);   Hunting;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Snare;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;The snare is broken and we have escaped.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper; The snare is broken and we have escaped.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our soule is escaped, euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler: the snare is broken, and we be escaped.
Darby Translation
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
New King James Version
Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; [fn] The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Literal Translation
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowlers' snare; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Easy-to-Read Version
We escaped like a bird from the net of a hunter. The net broke, and we escaped!
World English Bible
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
King James Version (1611)
Our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the foulers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
ye snare is broke, and we are delyuered.
THE MESSAGE
We've flown free from their fangs, free of their traps, free as a bird. Their grip is broken; we're free as a bird in flight.
Amplified Bible
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The trap is broken and we have escaped.
American Standard Version
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Bible in Basic English
Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.
Update Bible Version
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our soul hath escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare [is] broken, and we have escaped.
New English Translation
We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter's snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.
Contemporary English Version
and we escaped like birds from a hunter's torn net.
Complete Jewish Bible
We escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap; the trap is broken, and we have escaped.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our soule is escaped, euen as a bird out of the snare of the foulers: the snare is broken, and we are deliuered.
George Lamsa Translation
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Hebrew Names Version
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers;
New Living Translation
We escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap. The trap is broken, and we are free!
New Life Bible
We have become free like a bird out of a trap. The net is broken and now we are free.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
English Revised Version
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Berean Standard Bible
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
New Revised Standard
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our soul, as a bird, hath escaped from the snare of the fowlers, The snare, is broken, and, we, are escaped:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(123-7) Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Lexham English Bible
Our soul has escaped like a bird from the snare of fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
English Standard Version
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
New American Standard Bible
Our souls have escaped like a bird from the trapper's snare; The snare is broken and we have escaped.
New Century Version
We escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap. The trap broke, and we escaped.
Good News Translation
We have escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap; the trap is broken, and we are free!
Christian Standard Bible®
We have escaped like a bird from the hunter's net; the net is torn, and we have escaped.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure soule, as a sparowe, is delyuered; fro the snare of hunters. The snare is al to-brokun; and we ben delyuered.
Revised Standard Version
We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
Young's Literal Translation
Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

Contextual Overview

6 Blessed be the Lord , who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord , who made heaven and earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Our soul: 1 Samuel 23:26, 1 Samuel 23:27, 1 Samuel 24:14, 1 Samuel 24:15, 1 Samuel 25:29, 2 Samuel 17:2, 2 Samuel 17:21, 2 Samuel 17:22

as a bird: Psalms 25:15, Psalms 91:3, Proverbs 6:5, Jeremiah 5:26, Jeremiah 18:22, 2 Timothy 2:26

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 19:10 - and escaped Psalms 31:4 - Pull Psalms 37:33 - will not Psalms 64:5 - of laying snares Psalms 119:110 - wicked Psalms 129:4 - cut asunder Isaiah 49:24 - prey 1 Corinthians 10:13 - make

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers,.... The people of God are like little birds, being harmless and innocent, singing forth the praises of God for his goodness to them; as also because weak and unable to resist their foes; and worthless in themselves, like sparrows, as the word i here used signifies; and are fearful and timorous, and flee at the least apprehension of danger,

Psalms 102:7. Satan, and wicked men under his influence, are like fowlers who lay snares for them, to draw them into sin, into immorality and error, in order to bring them to ruin and destruction; hence we read of the snare of the devil and of wicked men, 1 Timothy 3:7 2 Timothy 2:26; and who form plans and lay schemes to oppress and destroy them; but through the wisdom given them to discern these devices and stratagems, and through the power of divine grace, accompanying them, they escape what was intended for their hurt, and particularly in the following manner:

the snare is broken, and we are escaped; measures concerted by wicked men are broken, their schemes are confounded, their devices are disappointed, so that they cannot perform their enterprise; and by this means the saints escape the evils designed against them, the afflictions of the world, and the temptations of Satan.

i כצפור ως σπουθιον, Sept. "sicut passer", V. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our soul is escaped - We have escaped; our life has been preserved.

As a bird out of the snare of the fowlers - By the breaking of the snare, or the gin. The bird is entangled, but the net breaks, and the bird escapes. See the notes at Psalms 91:3.

The snare is broken ... - It was not strong enough to retain the struggling bird, and the captive broke away. So we seemed to be caught. The enemy appeared to have us entirely in his power, but escape came to us as it does to the bird when it finds the net suddenly break, and itself again at large.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 124:7. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare — This is a fine image; and at once shows the weakness of the Jews, and the cunning of their adversaries. Haman had laid the snare completely for them; humanly speaking there was no prospect of their escape: but the Lord was on their side; and the providence that induced Ahasuerus to call for the book of the records of the kingdom to be read to him, as well indeed as the once very improbable advancement of Esther to the throne of Persia, was the means used by the Lord for the preservation of the whole Jewish people from extermination. God thus broke the snare, and the bird escaped; while the poacher was caught in his own trap, and executed. See the Book of Esther, which is probably the best comment on this Psalm.


 
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