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7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-8)Here the psalmist further magnifies the great deliverance God had lately wrought for them. I. That their hearts might be the more enlarged in thankfulness to him (Ps. 124:6): Blessed be the Lord . God is the author of all our deliverances, and therefore he must have the glory of them. We rob him of his due if we do not return thanks to him. And we are the more obliged to praise him because we had…
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