Chapter 124

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, say Israel, the enemies would have swallowed us alive. We have escaped like a bird from a fowler's snare. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

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,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 124:1-8. The writer, for the Church, praises God for past, and expresses trust for future, deliverance from foes. 1-2. on our side--for us (Psa 56:9). now--or, “oh! let Israel”