Psalms 124:7
Our soul is escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us up as a prey to their teeth.
8Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven 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 before Saul; and Saul and his men were compassing David and his men to seize them.
1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel gone out? after whom art thou pursuing? 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 terrify him; so that all the people that are with him will flee; and I will smite the king alone;
Psalms 25:15My eyes are ever [directed] toward the Lord; for he will draw out of the net my feet.
Psalms 129:4[Yet] the Lord is righteous; he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:26For there are found among my people wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that layeth snares; 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 →