Psalms 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
King James Version
In Context
6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made 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 for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about 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 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 the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms 129:4The LORD 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 he that setteth 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 →