“We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!”
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!”
The escape David refers to in Psalm 124 was a literal, physical
one, from an enemy that would have swallowed both him and his alive if it
could; an enemy with “teeth” that regarded him as “prey”. He uses metaphors in
his praise, but there was nothing metaphorical about the things from which he
escaped. Very likely it was cold steel or a slew of arrows aimed in his
direction.
The escape I’m thinking about is of a different sort.