We escaped like a bird caught in a hunter’s trap. The trap was broken, and we escaped.
I’ll attack him while he’s tired and weak, and I’ll cause him to panic. All the people with him will flee, but I’ll kill only him.
The Lord is righteous. He has cut me loose from the ropes that wicked people tied around me.
My eyes are always on the Lord. He removes my feet from traps.
He is the one who will rescue you from hunters’ traps and from deadly plagues.
Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of a hunter and like a bird from the hand of a hunter.
Make them cry out from their homes when you suddenly send troops against them, because they dug a pit to catch me and hid snares for my feet.
“Wicked people are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch people.
Then they might come back to their senses and God will free them from the devil’s snare so that they can do his will.
Saul gave up pursuing David and went to fight the Philistines. So that place was called Slippery Rock.
Even though someone pursued you and sought your life, your life is wrapped in the bundle of life which comes from the Lord your God. But he will dispose of the lives of your enemies like stones thrown from a sling.