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King James Version

Psalms 91:3

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Righteous;   Snare;   Testimony;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Deliverance;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Defense;   Deliverance;   Truth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Devil, the;   Protection;   Providence of God, the;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fowler;   Hunting;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bird;   Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fowler;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hunting;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Medicine;   Plagues of Egypt;   Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fowler;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hunting;   Sennacherib;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Snare;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fowler;   Hunting;   Life;   Music;   Noisome;   Snare;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Demonology;   Hunting;   Pestilence;   Providence;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapperAnd from the destructive pestilence.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper And from the deadly pestilence.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he wyll delyuer thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the noysome pestilence.
Darby Translation
Surely *he* shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the destructive pestilence.
New King James Version
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler [fn] And from the perilous pestilence.
Literal Translation
For He delivers you from the fowler's snare, from destruction's plague.
Easy-to-Read Version
God will save you from hidden dangers and from deadly diseases.
World English Bible
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, From the deadly pestilence.
King James Version (1611)
Surely he shall deliuer thee from the snare of the fouler: and from the noisome pestilence.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he shal deliuer the fro the snare of the hunter, & fro the noysome pestilence.
Amplified Bible
For He will save you from the trap of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.
American Standard Version
For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.
Bible in Basic English
He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
Update Bible Version
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, And from the word of calamity.
Webster's Bible Translation
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.
New English Translation
he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord will keep you safe from secret traps and deadly diseases.
Complete Jewish Bible
he will rescue you from the trap of the hunter and from the plague of calamities;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely he will deliuer thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noysome pestilence.
George Lamsa Translation
Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from vain gossip.
Hebrew Names Version
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, From the deadly pestilence.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
New Living Translation
For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.
New Life Bible
For it is He Who takes you away from the trap, and from the killing sickness.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, from every troublesome matter.
English Revised Version
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Berean Standard Bible
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
New Revised Standard
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, he, will rescue thee, From the snare of the fowler, From the destructive pestilence.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(90-3) For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.
Lexham English Bible
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, from the plague of destruction.
English Standard Version
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
New American Standard Bible
For it is He who rescues you from the net of the trapper And from the deadly plague.
New Century Version
God will save you from hidden traps and from deadly diseases.
Good News Translation
He will keep you safe from all hidden dangers and from all deadly diseases.
Christian Standard Bible®
He Himself will deliver you from the hunter's net, from the destructive plague.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he delyuered me fro the snare of hunteris; and fro a scharp word.
Young's Literal Translation
For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.
Revised Standard Version
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;

Contextual Overview

1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord , He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

snare: Psalms 124:7, Psalms 141:9, Proverbs 7:23, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Hosea 9:8, Amos 3:5, 1 Timothy 6:9, 2 Timothy 2:26

and from: Psalms 91:6, Numbers 14:37, Numbers 14:38, Numbers 16:46-48, 2 Samuel 24:15, Job 5:10-22

Reciprocal: Job 5:19 - deliver thee Psalms 33:19 - To deliver Psalms 41:2 - preserve Proverbs 3:26 - Lord Isaiah 43:2 - passest Ezekiel 14:19 - if I Daniel 3:25 - they have no hurt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,.... These are the words of the psalmist, either speaking to himself, for the encouragement of his own faith and trust in the Lord; or to the man that dwells in the secret place, and under the shadow of the most High; which latter seems most agreeable; though Cocceius thinks they are the words of God in one of his Persons, speaking of another divine Person that should deliver such that trust in him: the Targum makes them to be the words of David to Solomon his son. By the "fowler" and his "snare" may be meant either Saul, who laid wait for David, spread snares for him, and hunted him as a partridge on the mountains, from whom he was delivered; or rather any tyrannical enemy and persecutor of the saints, who lay snares for them; and these are broken by the Lord, and so they escape, as a bird out of the hands of the fowler, Psalms 124:6 or it may, best of all, be understood of Satan and his temptations, which are as snares that he lays to catch the people of God in, and from which they are delivered by the power and grace of God; see 1 Timothy 3:7

and from the noisome pestilence; the most pernicious and destructive one; which may be literally understood of any pestilential distemper; from which the Lord, by his powerful providence, sometimes protects his people, when in danger of it: or, spiritually, of the pestilential disease of sin, that noisome and deadly one, the plague of the heart, which is the worst of all plagues; and from the ruinous and destructive effects and consequences of which the Lord saves his saints.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler - The snare or gin set for catching birds; meaning, here, that God would save him from the purposes of wicked people; such purposes as might be compared with the devices employed to catch birds. On the meaning of the figure used here, see the notes at Psalms 18:5.

And from the noisome pestilence - The “fatal” pestilence; the pestilence that spreads death in its march. That is, he can prevent its coming upon you; or, he can save you from its ravages, while others are dying around you. This promise is not to be understood as absolute, or as meaning that no one who fears God will ever fall by the pestilence - for good people “do” die at such times as well as bad people; but the idea is, that God “can” preserve us at such a time and that, as a great law, he will be thus the protector of those who trust him. It is to be remembered that in times of pestilence (as was the case during the prevalence of the Asiatic cholera in 1832 and 1848), very many of the victims are the intemperate, the sensual, the debased, and that a life of this kind is a predisposing cause of death in such visitations of judgment. A large part of those who die are of that number. From the danger arising from this cause, of course the virtuous, the temperate, the pious are exempt; and this is one of the methods by which God saves those who trust in him from the “noisome pestilence.” Religion, therefore, to a considerable extent, constitutes a ground of security at such times; nor is there any reason to doubt that, in many cases also, there may be a special interposition protecting the friends of God from danger, and sparing them for future usefulness. The promise here is substantially that general promise which we have in the Scriptures everywhere, that God is the Protector of his people, and that they may put their trust in him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 91:3. Surely he shall deliver thee — If thou wilt act thus, then the God in whom thou trustest will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from all the devices of Satan, and from all dangerous maladies. As the original word, דבר dabar, signifies a word spoken, and deber, the same letters, signifies pestilence; so some translate one way, and some another: he shall deliver thee from the evil and slanderous word; he shall deliver thee from the noisome pestilence - all blasting and injurious winds, effluvia, &c.


 
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