Psalms 91:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַ֭צִּֽילְךָ מִפַּ֥ח יָק֗וּשׁ מִדֶּ֥בֶר הַוּֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

For hûʾ yaṣṣîlĕkā from paḥ yāqûš, from deber hawwôt.

Grammar Details

• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *yaṣṣîlĕkā*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - he will deliver you
• *paḥ*: masculine singular construct - snare/trap
• *yāqûš*: Qal participle, masculine singular - fowler/trapper
• *deber*: masculine singular construct - pestilence/plague
• *hawwôt*: feminine plural noun - destruction/calamities

Word Meanings

• *yaṣṣîlĕkā*: he will deliver you/rescue you/save you
• *paḥ yāqûš*: snare of the fowler/trap of the hunter
• *deber*: pestilence/plague/deadly disease
• *hawwôt*: destructions/calamities/ruinous conditions/deadly plagues

Referenced Verses

• Ps 124:7 : 7 We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.
• Ps 141:9 : 9 Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.
• Job 5:10-22 : 10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields; 11 he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety. 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned! 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night. 15 So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful. 16 Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth. 17 “Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. 18 For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal. 19 He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you. 20 In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword. 21 You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes. 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
• Ps 91:6 : 6 the plague that stalks in the darkness, or the disease that ravages at noon.
• 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
• Prov 6:5 : 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
• Prov 7:23 : 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
• Eccl 9:12 : 12 Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.
• Hos 9:8 : 8 The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God, yet traps are laid for him along all of his paths; animosity rages against him in the land of his God.
• Num 14:37-38 : 37 those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 38 But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.
• 2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So the LORD sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.
• 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.
• Num 16:46-48 : 46 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!” 47 So Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people. 48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
• Amos 3:5 : 5 Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?
• 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive to do his will.