시편 124:8 KRV

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 124:0 When the conflict was over, the venerable Theodore Beza, eighty years old, returned solemn thanks, and gave out the 124th Psalm to be sung. Every year since, on 12 December, it has been sung in Geneva Dr. Tholuck of Halle used to tell an anecdote of his father-in-law. He was a convert from Roman Catholicism; and as it happens sometimes that though the mind may be entirely emancipated, the desire for priestly absolution returns, his son-in-law asked him before he died, if he had any... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 124:1-8A SEQUENCE may be traced connecting this with the two adjacent psalms. In Psalms 123:1-4, patient resignation sighed for deliverance, which here has been received and has changed the singer’s note into jubilant and wondering praise; while, in the next little lyric, we have the escaped Israel established in Jerusalem, and drawing omens of Divine guardianship from its impregnable position, on a mountain girt by mountains. This psalm is an outgush of the first rapture of astonishment... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalm 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrate the feasts of the Lord--”Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.” They are indeed Psalms of “the goings-up” for we rise higher and higher as we read through them. Prophetically they give us again the steps from trial and... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

This group is differentiated by the title attached to each: “A Song of Degrees” or “A Song of Ascents.” The title seems derived from the going up of the people to Jerusalem at the great festivals which came three times a year. (Compare Deuteronomy 16:16 ; 1 Kings 12:27-28 , etc.); the thought being that they chanted the psalms at different stages in their journey. The pertinency of this application of these psalms is more apparent in some than others. For example, Psalms 121:0 represents the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 124:6-8

Reader! shall we not join this song, and evermore take up the same confidence: "Blessed, forever blessed be God for Jesus Christ! And henceforth our help, and hope, and strength, shall only be in him. He that hath delivered, doth deliver, and in whom we trust he will yet deliver, " 2 Corinthians 1:10 . Yes, blessed Jesus! henceforth may I find grace to leave all with thee. My soul, the church, every believer, all, all are and must be safe in thy eternal and almighty hands! Like the church of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 124:8

REFLECTIONS BLESSED Deliverer of thy people! thou art our salvation, and the salvation of God our Father to the ends of the earth. And what thy Father appointed, thou hast accomplished: thy love, and thy mercy, have been the glorious procuring cause of all thy Church's deliverance, and of all their joy. Let it please thee then, most gracious Saviour, to be our help and confidence forever. Let the church, which thou hast purchased with thy blood, be still dear to thee. Let the souls of thy... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 124:6-8

6-8 God is the Author of all our deliverances, and he must have the glory. The enemies lay snares for God's people, to bring them into sin and trouble, and to hold them there. Sometimes they seem to prevail; but in the Lord let us put our trust, and we shall not be put to confusion. The believer will ascribe all the honour of his salvation, to the power, mercy, and truth of God, and look back with wonder and thanksgiving on the way in which the Lord has led him. Let us rejoice that our help for... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 124:1-8

The Lord the Deliverer of His Church. A song of degrees of David, setting forth the assistance and deliverance of Jehovah in the midst of great dangers. v. 1. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, if it had not been for His merciful and almighty protection, now may Israel say, that is, all believers, as constituting together the spiritual Israel; v. 2. if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us, as they will time and again in the interest of... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 124:0A Song of degrees of David 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 had swallowed us up quick,When their wrath was kindled against us:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us,The stream had gone over our soul:5 Then the proud watersHad gone over our soul.6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given usAs a prey to their teeth.7 Our soul is... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

the Christian’s Fortress Psalms 124:1-8 ; Psalms 125:1-5 Here are three instances of escaped peril. In Psalms 124:3 is an allusion to Korah and his company; see Numbers 16:32-33 . Why are we spared when others have been overwhelmed by swift disasters? In Psalms 124:4 and Psalms 124:5 , as the morning breaks, we see the proud waters that have burst their banks and are inundating the low-lying lands. Why did our house escape? In Psalms 124:6 and Psalms 124:7 we have the metaphor of the... read more