We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
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
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. Our soul is like a bird for many reasons; but in this case the point of likeness is weakness, folly, and the ease with which it is enticed into the snare. Fowlers have many methods of taking small birds, and Satan has many methods of entrapping souls.
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 is the author of all our deliverances, and therefore he must have the glory of them. We rob him of his due if we do not return thanks to him.
Commenting on Psalm 124:6-8