Psalm 124

Verse 1

If it had not been the LORD who was ¹ on our side, now may Israel say;

He shows that God was ready to help at need and that there was no other way to be saved, but by this means alone.

Verse 3

Then they had swallowed us up ¹ quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Verse 4

Then the ¹ waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

He uses proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of which God miraculously delivered them.

Verse 7

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the ¹ snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

For the wicked not only furiously rage against the faithful, but craftily imagined to destroy them.

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