--- title: "Psalms 124 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 124 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 T" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/124" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/124)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/124)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/124) Audio 1 If *it had not been* the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If *it had not been* the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed *be* the LORD, who hath not given us *as* a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8 Our help *is* in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. [Psalms 123](/study/psalms/123) [Psalms 125](/study/psalms/125) ## Commentary To verse 1 In our present Hebrew copies this Psalm is attributed to *David*, לדוד ledavid; but this inscription is wanting in *three* of *Kennicott's* and *De Rossi's* MSS., as also in the *Septuagint,* *Syriac, Vulgate, AEthiopic*, and *Arabic*; and in most of the ancient *fathers*, Greek and Latin, who found no other inscription in their copies of the text than *A Psalm of degrees*. It was composed long after David's days; and appears to be either a thanksgiving for their deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, or for a remarkable deliverance from some potent and insidious enemy after their return to Judea. Or, what appears to be more likely, it is a thanksgiving of the Jews for their escape from the general massacre intended by Haman, prime minister of Ahasuerus, king of Persia. See the whole Book of *Esther*. Verse [Psalms 124:1](/kjv/psalms/124/1). ***If*****it had not been*****the Lord*** — If God had not, in a very especial manner, supported and defended us, we had all been swallowed up alive, and destroyed by a sudden destruction, so that not one would have been left. This might refer to the plot against the whole nation of the Jews by Haman, in the days of Mordecai and Esther; when by his treacherous schemes the Jews, wheresoever dispersed in the provinces of Babylon, were all to have been put to death in one day. 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