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Deceived by subtle snares of hell Hymn 107

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 107, under Genesis 3:1, 15, 17, 4, 15.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 107

METRE

Long Metre 8.8.8.8 · 6 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Genesis 3:1, 15, 17, 4, 15 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 6 stanzas as Watts printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.

a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

Deceived by subtle snares of hell

Deceived by subtle snares of hell,

Adam, our head, our father, fell;

When Satan, in the serpent hid,

Proposed the fruit that God forbid.

Where Watts found it

Watts printed the hymn under Genesis 3:1, 15, 17, 4, 15. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” 15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” 17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. GENESIS 3:1, 15, 17, 4, 15 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ GENESIS 3

But Satan found a worse reward; Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord "Let everlasting hatred be Betwixt the woman's seed and thee. STANZA III

Its place in the book

Book I of the hymn book, “Collected from the Holy Scriptures”, holds these hymns in this order: 179 hymns. This is number 107. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 107 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN Deceived by subtle snares of hell

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