Psalms 123

Subsection 2. (Psalms 123:1-4; Psalms 124:1-8; Psalms 125:1-5.) Deliverance from enemies. The next series shows us Israel’s deliverance from her enemies; and it is so transparently plain as to need little comment.

Psalms 123:1-4

God only sufficient. A song of the ascents. The first psalm here, as in the former one, is only the distress, which yet has not gone as far as it will go. Jehovah is the one resource; and as dwelling in the heavens, not in Zion. But these eyes that turn to heaven are servants’ eyes: the spirit of obedience is in their hearts; and along with this the conscious need of grace. The pride of man is here the trial, as before his deceitfulness and spirit of strife. But the latter blazes out again in the next psalm.