Snare

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”

They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

…know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

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

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

…for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

…until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

…or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.

Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.

“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.