Psalms 91:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 124:7 : 7 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.
  • Ps 141:9 : 9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
  • Job 5:10-22 : 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields: 11 Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place; 12 Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes. 13 He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly. 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night. 15 But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong. 16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped. 17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all. 18 For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well. 19 He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you. 20 When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. 21 He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes. 22 You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.
  • Ps 91:6 : 6 Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
  • 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.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
  • Hos 9:8 : 8 There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
  • Num 14:37-38 : 37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord. 38 But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.
  • 2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:
  • Num 16:46-48 : 46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting. 47 And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people. 48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.
  • Amos 3:5 : 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?
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 91:4-7
    4 verses
    80%

    4 You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

    5 You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

    6 Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

    7 You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

  • Ps 91:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

    2 Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

  • Ps 91:9-15
    7 verses
    74%

    9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

    10 No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

    11 For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

    12 In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

    13 You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

    14 Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

    15 When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

  • 7 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.

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

  • 3 For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

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

  • 21 The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

  • Job 5:19-21
    3 verses
    70%

    19 He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

    20 When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

    21 He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

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

  • Ps 41:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2 The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

    3 The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

  • 26 For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

  • 7 You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

  • 9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.

  • 3 He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

  • 9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • 10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • 3 May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.

  • 68%

    1 <Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

  • 7 The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

  • 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?

  • 48 He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • 19 To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

  • 21 I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.

  • 27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.

  • 3 My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

  • 26 Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

  • 40 And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

  • 18 For I will certainly let you go free, and you will not be put to the sword, but your life will be given to you out of the hands of your attackers: because you have put your faith in me, says the Lord.

  • 5 For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

  • 20 You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

  • 4 He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

  • 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?

  • 2 The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

  • 19 Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

  • 16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.