Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · Psalms Kapitel 124

Ps 124:1-8.

The writer, for the Church, praises God for past, and expresses trust for future, deliverance from foes.

1, 2. on our side--for us

(Ps 56:9).

now--or, "oh! let Israel"

2. rose . . . against, &c.--

(Ps 3:1; 56:11).

3. Then--that is, the time of our danger.

quick--literally, "living"

(Nu 16:32, 33),

description of ferocity.

4, 5. (Compare

Ps 18:4, 16).

5. The epithet proud added to waters denotes insolent enemies.

6, 7. The figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast

(Ps 3:7),

and then of a fowler

(Ps 91:3),

and complete escape is denoted by breaking the net.

8. (Compare

Ps 121:2).

name--in the usual sense

(Ps 5:11; 20:1).

He thus places over against the great danger the omnipotent God, and drowns, as it were in an anthem, the wickedness of the whole world and of hell, just as a great fire consumes a little drop of water [LUTHER].