A song of ascents by David
124:Title See Ps 120.⚜
124
📚“If it had not been the LORD who was
on our side”,
now may Israel say,
2 📚“If it had not
been the LORD
who was on our side,
when men rose up against us,
3 📚Then they would have
swallowed us up quickly,
when their anger burned
against us.
4 📚Then the waters would have
overwhelmed us,
the stream would have gone
over our soul;
5 📚Then the raging waters would
have gone over our soul.
124:1-5 These verses refer to a great deliverance from enemies. They attacked Israel like a raging flood, like wild beasts (v 6), like fierce hunters (v 7). Israel is now urged to declare openly that deliverance was not due to their wisdom, skill, or strength, but only to this one fact: God was on their side. The church of Christ is in a hostile world. Satan combines with evil men to try to destroy it. Believers have been and still are ridiculed, threatened, discriminated against, persecuted, tortured, killed. But Christ’s church will never be destroyed, for God is still on the side of His people (Matt 16:18; Rom 8:31).⚜
6 📚Blessed be
the LORD,
who has not given us as prey
to their teeth.
7 📚Our soul has escaped like
a bird out of
the snare of the fowlers.
The snare has been broken,
and we have escaped.
8 📚Our help is
in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth”.