Matthew 7:13

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Isaiah 66:24

Psalm 22

Hosea 2:14-23


“‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
   Make the heart of this people dull,
    and their ears heavy,
    and blind their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
    and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
    and turn and be healed.”
   Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is a desolate waste,
   and the Lord removes people far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
   And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump remains
    when it is felled.”
The holy seed is its stump.
Isaiah 6:9b-13