Psalms 124:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

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  • Ps 91:3 : 3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
  • Prov 6:5 : 5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.
  • Ps 25:15 : 15 My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
  • 1 Sam 23:26-27 : 26 And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them. 27 But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.
  • 1 Sam 24:14-15 : 14 There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you. 15 After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
  • 2 Sam 17:2 : 2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
  • 2 Sam 17:21-22 : 21 Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you. 22 So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

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    2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;

    3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

    4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

    5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

    6 Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.

  • Ps 124:8
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    8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

    18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

    20 Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

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    1 <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

  • Ps 141:9-10
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    9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

    10 Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.

  • Ps 91:3
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    3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Ps 57:6
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    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Amos 3:5
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    5 Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?

  • Ps 31:4
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    4 Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

  • Ps 123:4
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    4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Ps 66:9
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    9 Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.

  • Ps 33:19-20
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    19 To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

    20 Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

  • Ps 116:8
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    8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

  • Ps 44:19
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    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

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    47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

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    12 Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

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    7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

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    11 You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

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    4 Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.

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    8 They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

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