then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
PSALM 124 The Church having been providentially delivered from extreme peril, David exhorts true believers to thanksgiving, and teaches them by this memorable example, that their safety depends solely upon the grace and power of God. A Song of Degrees of David. Psalm 124:1-5 1. But for Jehovah, who was on our side, may Israel now say; 2.
Commenting on Psalm 124:1-8
Then the waters had overwhelmed us. Rising irresistibly, like the Nile, the flood of opposition would soon have rolled over our heads. Across the mighty waste of waters we should have cast an anxious eye, but looked in vain for escape.
The people of God, being here called upon to praise God for their deliverance, are to take notice, I. Of the malice of men, by which they were reduced to the very brink of ruin. Let Israel say that there was but a step between them and death: the more desperate the disease appears to have been the more does the skill of the Physician appear in the cure.
Commenting on Psalm 124:1-5