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Psalm 91:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The Lord will keep you safe from secret traps and deadly diseases.

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So that morning, the LORD sent an angel to spread a horrible disease everywhere in Israel, from Dan to Beersheba. And before it was over, seventy thousand people had died. When the angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD felt sorry for all the suffering he had caused and told the angel, “That's enough! Don't touch them.” This happened at the threshing place that belonged to Araunah the Jebusite.

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

and we escaped like birds from a hunter's torn net.

Protect me from the traps of those violent people,

Our Lord and our God, your terrible enemies are ready for war, but you will crush their skulls.

And you won't fear diseases that strike in the dark or sudden disaster at midday.

Save yourself, just as a deer or a bird tries to escape from a hunter.

and killed with arrows. He was no more than a bird rushing into a trap, without knowing it would cost him his life.

None of us know when we might fall victim to a sudden disaster and find ourselves like fish in a net or birds in a trap.

Israel, the LORD sent me to look after you. But you trap his prophets and flood his temple with your hatred.

How can anyone catch a bird without using a net? Does a trap spring shut unless something is caught?

People who want to be rich fall into all sorts of temptations and traps. They are caught by foolish and harmful desires that drag them down and destroy them.

They have been trapped by the devil, and he makes them obey him, but God may help them escape.




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