Psalm 124:7 {123:7}
Good News Translation
We have escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap; the trap is broken, and we are free!

New Revised Standard Version
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Contemporary English Version
and we escaped like birds from a hunter's torn net.

New American Bible
We escaped with our lives like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare was broken, and we escaped.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

our soul

1 Samuel 23:26,27 And Saul went on this side of the mountain: and David and his men were on the other side of the mountain: and David despaired of being able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul and his men encompassed David and his men round about, to take them. . . .

1 Samuel 24:14,15 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. . . .

1 Samuel 25:29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.

2 Samuel 17:2,21,22 And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will defeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him, I will kill the king who will be left alone. . . .

as a bird

Psalm 25:15 My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

Psalm 91:3 For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.

Proverbs 6:5 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.

2 Timothy 2:26 And they may recover themselves from the snares of the devil by whom they are held captive at his will.

Context
Our Help is in the Name of the LORD
6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth. 7Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.8Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and so escaped his hands.

Hebrews 11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

Psalm 25:15
My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

Psalm 91:3
For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.

Psalm 141:10
The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

Proverbs 6:5
Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Lamentations 3:52
Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Ezekiel 13:21
And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver my people out of your hand, neither shall they be any more in your hands to be a prey: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Hosea 9:8
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.

Psalm 124:6
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