Psalms 124:7
Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6Blessed [is] Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth.
8Our help [is] in the name of Jehovah, Maker of the heavens and earth!
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:26And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them.
1 Samuel 24:14'After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? — after a dead dog! after one flea!
2 Samuel 17:2and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who [are] with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,
Psalms 25:15Mine eyes [are] continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet.
Psalms 129:4Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap — men they capture.
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 →