1 > If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say,
> Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
> I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence.
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
> See how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity!
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
> Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, Who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.
> Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.
> When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, We were like those who dream.
> To you I do lift up my eyes, You who sit in the heavens.
> I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
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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.