Psalms 91:3

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. SURELY HE SHALL DELIVER THEE FROM THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER. "Thee" - (Christ primarily, and secondarily, Israel literal and Israel spiritual. The believer is the figurative bird: Satan is "the fowler." God is the Deliverer of His Christ; then God in Christ is the Deliverer of Christ's people (Psalms 124:7; 2 Timothy 2:26). AND FROM THE NOISOME PESTILENCE. Hengstenberg translates, 'from the pestilence of wickednesses;' i:e., from the pestilential ruin which the mass of wickednesses threatens. The connection with "the fowler," Satan, and the image carried on in...

In verse third the Psalmist expresses his assurance that the trust of which he had spoken would not be vain and delusory, but that God would prove at all times the deliverer of his people. He is evidently to be considered as addressing himself, and in this way encouraging his own heart to hope in the Lord. Some think that by the _snare of the fowler, _spoken of here in connection with _the pestilence, _is to be understood hidden mischief as distinguished from open aggression, and that the Psalmist declares the Divine protection to be sufficient for him, whether Satan should attack him openly and violently or by more secret and subtle methods. I would not reject this interpretation; for though some may think that the words should be taken in their simpler acceptation, the Psalmist most probably intended under these terms to denote all different kinds of evil, and to teach us that God was...

1-8 He that by faith chooses God for his protector, shall find all in him that he needs or can desire. And those who have found the comfort of making the Lord their refuge, cannot but desire that others may do so. The spiritual life is protected by Divine grace from the temptations of Satan, which are as the snares of the fowler, and from the contagion of sin, which is a noisome pestilence. Great security is promised to believers in the midst of danger. Wisdom shall keep them from being afraid without cause, and faith shall keep them from being unduly afraid. Whatever is done, our heavenly Father's will is done; and we have no reason to fear. God's people shall see, not only God's promises fulfilled, but his threatenings. Then let sinners come unto the Lord upon his mercy-seat, through the Redeemer's name; and encourage others to trust in him also....

Verse Psalms 91:3. _SURELY HE SHALL DELIVER THEE_] If thou wilt act thus, then the God in whom thou trustest will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from all the devices of Satan, and from all dangerous maladies. As the original word, דבר _dabar_, signifies a _word spoken_, and _deber_, the same _letters_, signifies _pestilence;_ so some translate one way, and some another: he shall deliver thee from the evil and _slanderous word_; he shall deliver thee from the _noisome pestilence _- all blasting and injurious _winds, effluvia_, c....

SURELY HE SHALL DELIVER THEE FROM THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER - The snare or gin set for catching birds; meaning, here, that God would save him from the purposes of wicked people; such purposes as might be compared with the devices employed to catch birds. On the meaning of the figure used here, see the notes at Psalms 18:5. AND FROM THE NOISOME PESTILENCE - The “fatal” pestilence; the pestilence that spreads death in its march. That is, he can prevent its coming upon you; or, he can save you from its ravages, while others are dying around you. This promise is not to be understood as absolute, or as meaning that no one who fears God will ever fall by the pestilence - for good people “do” die at such times as well as bad people; but the idea is, that God “can” preserve us at such a time and that, as a great law, he will be thu

EXPOSITION THIS psalm, like the majority in the present Book, is without a title. Jewish tradition, however, ascribed it to Moses—a conclusion which Dr. Kay and others accept as borne out by the facts, especially by the many close resemblances between it and Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 33:1. Other critics, and they are the majority, trace in it a different hand, but regard it as suggested by Psalms 90:1. The subject is the security of the man who thoroughly trusts in God. This subject is worked out by an "antiphonal arrangement" (Cheyne)—the first speaker delivering Psalms

SURELY HE SHALL DELIVER THEE FROM THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER,.... These are the words of the psalmist, either speaking to himself, for the encouragement of his own faith and trust in the Lord; or to the man that dwells in the secret place, and under the shadow of the most High; which latter seems most agreeable; though Cocceius thinks they are the words of God in one of his Persons, speaking of another divine Person that should deliver such that trust in him: the Targum makes them to be the words of David to Solomon his son. By the "fowler" and his "snare" may be meant either Saul, who laid wait for David, spread snares for him, and hunted him as a partridge on the mountains, from whom he was delivered; or rather any tyrannical enemy and persecutor of the saints, who lay snares for them; and these are broken by the Lord, and so they escape, as a bird out of the hands of the fowler, Psalms 1...

A Psalm written for comfort, but it is not addressed to all mankind, neither I venture to say, to all believers, but only those who are described in the first verse. Psalms 91:1. _He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty._ It is not every worshipper that comes there who shall be thus privileged but those who dwell there, as Simeon and Anna dwelt in the temple. So there are some that abide in Christ and his words abide in them. They live near to God. They receive therefore choicer favours than those who do but come and go. «He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High.» He who has learnt to stand in the holy of holies, near the blood-besprinkled mercy-seat, to whom prayer is a matter of constant privilege and enjoyment-he dwells in the secret place. Such a man, living near to God, shall abide under the sha

Psalms 91 Christ, the Second Man __ 1. In dependence (Psalms 91:1) 2. In security (Psalms 91:3) 3. His triumph and exaltation (Psalms 91:9) This Psalm has no inscription. Its author is unknown, but we know it is the testimony of the Spirit of God concerning the second Man, our Lord. Satan knew this also for he quoted this Psalm to our Lord in Matthew 4:1, omitting the words “in all thy ways” (Psalms 91:11 and...

XCI. GOD PROTECTS HIS OWN. Psalms 91:1 f. Read perhaps Blessed is he that dwelleth, that abideth, that saith of Yahweh. Psalms 91:3. noisome pestilence: read, from the pit of destruction. The pestilence is mentioned with greater fullness (Psalms 91:6). Psalms 91:5. The ARROW may be a metaphor for the sun-stroke. Psalms 91:9. Read, For as for thee, Yahweh is thy refuge. We thus avoid an intolerable confusion of persons. Psalm