Psalms 91:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 91:3

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

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ASV

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

WEB

Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

YLT

For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.

DBT

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the destructive pestilence.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Isaiah 43:2
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
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.
Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 3:26
For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Job 5:19
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

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(2.) The spiritual life, which is protected by divine grace from the temptations of Satan, which are as the snares of the fowler, and from the contagion of sin, which is the noisome pestilence. He that has given grace to be the glory of the soul will create a defence upon all that glory.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Those who have themselves found the comfort of making God their refuge cannot but desire that others may do so. Now here it is promised, 1. That believers shall be kept from those mischiefs which they are in imminent danger of, and which would be fatal to them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

snares . . . [and] . . . noisome pestilence--literally, "plagues of mischiefs" (Ps 5:9; 52:7), are expressive figures for various evils.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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