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]. |