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- Chapter 124
- Verse 7
Psalms 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Our help is in the name of the Lord,.... This is the conclusion the church draws from the scene of Providence in her favour; this is the instruction she learns from hence, that her help is in the Lord…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Our soul is escaped - We have escaped; our life has been preserved. As a bird out of the snare of the fowlers - By the breaking of the snare, or the gin. The bird is entangled, but the net breaks, and…
Here the psalmist further magnifies the great deliverance God had lately wrought for them.
I. That their hearts might be the more enlarged in thankfulness to him (Psa 124:6): Blessed be the Lord. God…
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