"Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered."
— The Church of England
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
John Baskerville
Date
1662, 1762
Metaphor
"Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered."
Metaphor in Context
PSAL. 124. Nisi quia Dominus.
If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say: if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;
2 They had swallowed us up quick: when thy were so wrathfully displeased at us.
3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul.
4 The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our soul. 5 But praised be the Lord: who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.
6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth.
(pp. 52-3)
2 They had swallowed us up quick: when thy were so wrathfully displeased at us.
3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul.
4 The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our soul. 5 But praised be the Lord: who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.
6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth.
(pp. 52-3)
Provenance
Reading in Google Books
Citation
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. (Cambridge: Baskerville, 1762). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
01/23/2012
