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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 124:1 through Psalm 124:8 (NIV)
1 If the LORD had not been on our side—
let Israel say—
2 if the LORD had not been on our side
when men attacked us,
3 when their anger flared against us,
they would have swallowed us alive;
4 the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters
would have swept us away.
6 Praise be to the LORD,
who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird
out of the fowler’s snare;
the snare has been broken,
and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-5
God suffers the enemies of his people sometimes to prevail very far against
them, that his power may be seen the more in their deliverance. Happy the people
whose God is Jehovah, a God all-sufficient. Besides applying this to any
particular deliverance wrought in our days and the ancient times, we should have
in our thoughts the great work of redemption by Jesus Christ, by which believers
were rescued from Satan.
VERSES 6-8
God is the Author of all our deliverances, and he must have the glory. The
enemies lay snares for God’s people, to bring them into sin and trouble, and to
hold them there. Sometimes they seem to prevail; but in the Lord let us put our
trust, and we shall not be put to confusion. The believer will ascribe all the
honour of his salvation, to the power, mercy, and truth of God, and look back
with wonder and thanksgiving on the way in which the Lord has led him. Let us
rejoice that our help for the time to come is in him who made heaven and earth.