Translations
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Our nephesh has escaped like a bird from the trap of the fowlers—the trap is shattered, and we have escaped!
Our whole-beings have escaped like a bird from the fowler's snare—the snare is broken, and we are free!
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Footnotes
Pach is a spring-loaded bird-trap. The image is one of the most tender reversals in the Psalter: the massive forces of vv. 1–5 are now recast as a sprung trap—one that broke before it could hold. F.O.G. retains nephesh here to complete the arc that began in v.4: the nephesh that nearly drowned beneath floodwaters is now the nephesh that takes flight. F.O.G.M. shifts to "whole-beings" to emphasise complete freedom as the theological punchline.

