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    "technical_definition": "A danger-and-capture motif in which hunting or trapping language represents plotted evil, moral entanglement, sudden judgment, or rescue from destructive schemes.",
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      "reference": "Ps. 7:15",
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      "reference": "Ps. 9:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the net which they hid is their own foot taken",
      "explanation": "Net imagery shows enemy schemes turning back upon the schemers under divine judgment.",
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      "reference": "Ps. 18:5",
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      "reference": "Ps. 57:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they have digged a pit before me",
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      "reference": "Ps. 91:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler",
      "explanation": "The fowler’s snare pictures hidden danger from which God can protect His servant.",
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      "reference": "Prov. 29:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare",
      "explanation": "Sin itself becomes a trap that entangles the evildoer.",
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      "reference": "Isa. 24:17-18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee",
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      "reference": "Jer. 18:22",
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      "reference": "Amos 3:5",
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