Psalms 124

Psalms 124:1

IF it had not been the Lord] He sheweth, That God was ready to help at need, and that there was none other way to be delivered, but onely by his power.

Psalms 124:3

Then they had swallowed us up quick] So unable were we to resist. A metaphor taken from ravenous beasts, who so speedily, and greedily devour their prey, that it seems to go quick down their throats, as Jonah did with the whale, Jonah 1:17.

Psalms 124:4

Then the waters had overwhelmed us] Psalms 69:2. He useth most proper similitudes of swallowing and drowning, to expresse the great danger that the church had been in, and out of which God miraculously had delivered them.

Psalms 124:7

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers] Psalms 91:3.

as a bird out of the snare] For the wicked did not onely furiously rage against the faithfull, but craftily imagined to destroy them.