Psaume 124:3-8

3 Alors ils nous auraient engloutis vivants, quand leur colère s'enflammait contre nous.

4 Alors les eaux nous auraient submergés, un torrent eût passé sur notre âme.

5 Alors les eaux impétueuses auraient passé sur notre âme.

6 Béni soit l'Éternel, qui ne nous a pas livrés en proie à leurs dents!

7 Notre âme s'est échappée comme un oiseau du filet de l'oiseleur; le filet s'est rompu, et nous nous sommes échappés.

8 Notre secours est dans le nom de l'Éternel, qui a fait les cieux et la terre.

Psaume 124:3-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 124

\\<>\\. 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 spread themselves like a flood; and whose destruction was like the breach of many waters, 2Sa 5:18,20, 10:19. Others, after his deliverance from the persecution of Saul, or from the conspiracy of Absalom. Theodoret is of opinion that David wrote this by a prophetic spirit, concerning the enemies of the Jews, upon their return to their own land, from the Babylonish captivity; who envied them, and rose up against them, but the Lord delivered them. And others apply it to the times of Antiochus, when the Jewish church and state were threatened with ruin; but the Lord appeared for them, in raising up the Maccabees. Kimchi interprets it of the Jews in captivity; and drama of the deliverance of the children of Israel at the Red sea. It may be applied to any time of distress the church and people of God have been in, and he has wrought salvation for them.