Psalms 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6Blessed be Jehovah, who gave us not up a prey to their teeth!
8Our help is in the name of Jehovah, the maker of heavens and earth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:26And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away from Saul; and Saul and his men sought to surround David and his men to take them.
1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a single flea.
2 Samuel 17:2and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
Psalms 25:15Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for he will bring my feet out of the net.
Psalms 129:4Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 124:7-8
The Security of God's People. 6 Blessed be the Lord , who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord , who made heaven and earth. Here the psalmist further magnifies the great deliverance God had lately wrought for them. I. That their hearts might be the more enlarged in thankfulness to him ( v. 6 ): Blessed be the Lord. God is the author of all our deliverances, and… Read the whole commentary →