Then they had swallowed us up quick,.... Or "alive"; as the earth swallowed up Korah and his company; or as the fish swallowed up Jonah; or rather as ravenous beasts swallow their prey; to which the allusion is.
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Psalms 124:3
Psalms 124:3
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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Psalms 124 — OverviewPsalms 124 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleDavid penned this psalm (we suppose) upon occasion of some great
deliverance which God wrought for him and his people from some very
threatening danger, which was likely to have involved them all in ruin,…Psalms 124 — OverviewPsalms 124 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 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;…Psalms 124 — OverviewPsalms 124 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleSong of degrees of David. Some think this psalm was written by David, after the conquest of the Philistines and Ammonites, and other nations that rose up against him and Israel, like the proud waves of the sea, and…Psalms 124:1-5Psalms 124:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe 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…Psalms 124:1-8Psalms 124:1-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
"A FRESH, bright lyric" (Cheyne), composed of two stanzas—the first part (Psalms 124:1-5) recounting a danger and a deliverance; the second (Psalms 124:6-8), praising God for the latter. This is another of…Psalms 124:1-8Psalms 124:1-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryDivine deliverance.
The spirit which breathes in this psalm is one of keen thankfulness. Nothing calls out so deep and strong a sense of indebtedness to God (or to man) as a consciousness that we owe to him an escape…