⁷ Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

³ For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.

⁵ Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

¹⁵ Mine eyes `are' continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet.

²² A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

¹⁴ `After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!

¹⁵ And Jehovah hath been for judge, and hath judged between me and thee, yea, he seeth and pleadeth my cause, and doth deliver me out of thy hand.'

²⁹ And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

² and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who `are' with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,

²⁶ And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them.

²⁷ And a messenger hath come in unto Saul, saying, `Haste, and come, for the Philistines have pushed against the land.'

²⁶ For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

²⁶ and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

²¹ And it cometh to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare to king David, and say unto David, `Rise ye, and pass over hastily the waters, for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.'

²² And David riseth, and all the people who `are' with him, and they pass over the Jordan, till the light of the morning, till one hath not been lacking who hath not passed over the Jordan.