Psalms 124:7
We are like a bird just escaped from the snare of the fowler. The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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6Blest be the Lord who has given us not to be torn by their teeth.
8Our help is the name of the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth.
Cross References
Psalms 25:15My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for out of the net he brings my foot.
Psalms 129:4But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.”
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 →