Chapter 124
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
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&) A Song. It is uncertain what the particular deliverance was which is celebrated in this Psalm. Some refer it to the deliverance of Hezekiah from Sennacherib; and others to the return from the Babylonian captivity; while Dr. A. Clarke refers it to that of the Jews from the massacre intended by Haman.
120:1 121:1 122:1 123:1 124:1 125:1 126:1 127:1 128:1 *titles; 129:1 130:1 131:1 132:1 133:1 134:1 *titles
The Lord
27:1 46:7,11 54:4 56:9 118:6,7 Exodus 15:1 Isaiah 8:9,10 Romans 8:31 Hebrews 13:5,6
now may
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
when men
21:1,2 3:1 22:12,13,16 37:32 Numbers 16:2,3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Then they
27:2 35:25 56:1,2 57:3 74:8 83:4 Esther 3:6,12,13
swallowed
Numbers 16:30-34 Proverbs 1:12 Jeremiah 51:34 Jonah 1:17
their wrath
76:10 1 Samuel 20:30-33 Daniel 3:19 Matthew 2:16 Acts 9:2
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
the waters
18:4 42:7 69:15 Isaiah 8:7,8 28:2 59:19 Jeremiah 46:7,8 Daniel 9:26 Revelation 12:15,16 17:1,15
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
the proud
93:3,4 Job 38:11 Jeremiah 5:22
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
who hath not
17:9 118:13 145:5,6 Exodus 15:9,10 Judges 5:30,31 1 Samuel 26:20 Isaiah 10:14-19
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Our soul
1 Samuel 23:26,27 24:14,15 25:29 2 Samuel 17:2,21,22
as a bird
25:15 91:3 Proverbs 6:5 Jeremiah 5:26 18:22 2 Timothy 2:26
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
115:15 121:2 134:3 146:5,6 Genesis 1:1 Isaiah 37:16-20 Jeremiah 32:17 Acts 4:24