Psalms 124 — Overview

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Psalms 124:1, The church blesses God for a miraculous deliverance. It is uncertain what the particular deliverance was which is celebrated in this Psalm. Some refer it to the deliverance of Hezekiah from Sennacherib; and others to the return from the Babylonian captivity; while Dr.

A. Clarke refers it to that of the Jews from the massacre intended by Haman.

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