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Chapter 124
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1 A song of ascents. Of David. I Had not the
LORD been with us, let Israel say,
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Had not the LORD been with us, when people rose
against us,
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They would have swallowed us alive, for their
fury blazed against us.
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The waters would have engulfed us, the torrent
overwhelmed us;
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seething waters would have drowned us.
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Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us to be
torn by their fangs.
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We escaped with our lives like a bird from the
fowler's snare; the snare was broken and we escaped.
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2 Our help is the name of the LORD, the maker of
heaven and earth.
1 [Psalm 124] A thanksgiving which
teaches that Israel's very existence is owed to God who rescues them. In the
first part Israel's enemies are compared to the mythic sea dragon
(⇒ Psalm 124:2b-3a; cf ⇒ Jeremiah
51:34) and Flood (⇒ Psalm 124:3b-5; cf
⇒ Isaiah 51:9-10). The psalm heightens the malice of
human enemies by linking them to the primordial enemies of God's creation.
Israel is a bird freed from the trapper's snare (⇒ Psalm
124:6-8) - freed originally from Pharaoh and now from the current danger.
2 [8] Our help is the name: for the
idiom, see ⇒ Exodus 18:4.
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