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Psalms 124:7

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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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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 124:6-8

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…