Psalms 124:7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
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In Context
6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
8Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:26Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
2 Samuel 17:2I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
Psalms 25:15My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms 129:4The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:26For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. 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 →