5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion; and this is one good rule, To avoid suretiship, because by it poverty and ruin are often brought into families, which take away that comfort in relations which he had recommended in the foregoing chapter. 1. We must l…
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