Bible Commentaries
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Psalms 124
Psalm 124:1-8. The writer, for the Church, praises God for past, and expresses trust for future, deliverance from foes.
on our side — for us (Psalm 56:9).
now — or, “oh! let Israel”
Then — that is, the time of our danger.
quick — literally, “living” (Numbers 16:32, Numbers 16:33), description of ferocity.
The figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast (Psalm 3:7), and then of a fowler (Psalm 91:3), and complete escape is denoted by breaking the net.
(Compare Psalm 121:2).
name — in the usual sense (Psalm 5:11; Psalm 20:1). He thus places over against the great danger the omnipotent God, and drowns, as it were in an anthem, the wickedness of the whole world and of hell, just as a great fire consumes a little drop of water [Luther].
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