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Proverbs 6:5
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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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Psalms 91:3rank 8
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
Psalms 124:7rank 6
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Proverbs 1:17rank 2
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Psalms 11:1rank 0
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!