<p class="poetry">We escaped with our lives,<n id="1" /> like a bird from a hunter&#8217;s snare.p> <p class="poetry">The snare broke, and we escaped.p>

<p class="poetry">A trap<n id="1" /> seizes him by the heel;p> <p class="poetry">a snare<n id="2" /> grips him.p>

<p class="poetry">Terror, pit, and snarep> <p class="poetry">are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait?p> <p class="poetry">Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?p>

<p class="poetry">That is why snares surround you,p> <p class="poetry">and why sudden fear terrifies you,p>

<p class="poetry">May their dining table become a trap before them!p> <p class="poetry">May it be a snare for that group of friends!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and from the destructive plague.p>

<p class="poetry">The wicked lay a trap for me,p> <p class="poetry">but I do not wander from your precepts.p>

<p class="poetry">Protect me from the snare they have laid for me,p> <p class="poetry">and the traps the evildoers have set.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Thorns and snares<n id="1" /> are in the path of the perverse,p> <p class="poetry">but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.p>

<p class="poetry">Terror, pits, and traps<n id="1" /> are in storep> <p class="poetry">for the people who live in Moab.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> rain down<n id="1" /> burning coals<n id="2" /> and brimstone<n id="3" /> on the wicked!p> <p class="poetry">A whirlwind is what they deserve!<n id="4" />p>

They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave<n id="1" /> them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

<p class="poetry">Proud men hide a snare for me;p> <p class="poetry">evil men<n id="1" /> spread a net by the path;p> <p class="poetry">they set traps for me. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">Even when my strength leaves me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you watch my footsteps.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">In the path where I walkp> <p class="poetry">they have hidden a trap for me.p>

<p class="poetry">till an arrow pierces his liver<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">like a bird hurrying into a trap,p> <p class="poetry">and he does not know that it will cost him his life.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will become a sanctuary,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but a stone that makes a person trip,p> <p class="poetry">and a rock that makes one stumble &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">to the two houses of Israel.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will become<n id="3" /> a trap and a snarep> <p class="poetry">to the residents of Jerusalem.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let cries of terror be heard in their housesp> <p class="poetry">when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For they have virtually dug a pit to capture mep> <p class="poetry">and have hidden traps for me to step into.p>

<p class="poetry">The prophet<n id="1" /> is a watchman<n id="2" /> over Ephraim<n id="3" /> on behalf of God,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">yet traps<n id="5" /> are laid for him along all of his paths;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">animosity rages against him in the land<n id="7" /> of his God.p>

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives,<n id="1" /> they must be made<n id="2" /> into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the <sc>Lordsc> and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.&#8221;