1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);
<A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.
<A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.
When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times. So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?
<A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.
Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
<A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
<A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
<A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
<A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
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Commentary on Psalms 124 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 124
David 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, whether by foreign invasion, or intestine insurrection, is not certain; whatever it was he seems to have been himself much affected, and very desirous to affect others, with the goodness of God, in making a way for them to escape. To him he is careful to give all the glory, and takes none to himself as conquerors usually do.
In singing this psalm, besides the application of it to any particular deliverance wrought for us and our people, in our days and the days of our fathers, we may have in our thoughts the great work of our redemption by Jesus Christ, by which we were rescued from the powers of darkness.
A song of degrees of David.
Psa 124:1-5
The people of God, being here called upon to praise God for their deliverance, are to take notice,
Psa 124:6-8
Here the psalmist further magnifies the great deliverance God had lately wrought for them.