Psalms 91:3

Surely he&c. For HE &c. The pronoun is emphatic.

the snare of the fowler All insidious attempts against life or welfare (Psalms 124:7; Psalms 141:9, &c.; 2 Timothy 2:26).

and from the noisome pestilence from [omit and the destroying pestilence. But pestilencecomes later in Psalms 91:6, and the LXX, Symm., and Syr., give a better parallel to the snare of the fowlerby the reading, which involves only a change of vocalisation, from the destroying word of malignant calumny and slander. Cp. the same parallel in Psalms 38:12, and the numerous complaints of slander, and prayers to be delivered from it; e.g. Psalms 5:9; Psalms 120:2-3.