{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa124.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa124.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa124.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\non our side--for us (Psa 56:9).\nnow--or, \"oh! let Israel\"\nrose . . . against, &c.-- (Psa 3:1; Psa 56:11).\nThen--that is, the time of our danger.\nquick--literally, \"living\" (Num 16:32-33), description of ferocity.\n(Compare Psa 18:4, Psa 18:16).\nThe epithet proud added to waters denotes insolent enemies.\nThe figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast (Psa 3:7), and then of a fowler (Psa 91:3), and complete escape is denoted by breaking the net.\n(Compare Psa 121:2).\nname--in the usual sense (Psa 5:11; Psa 20:1). He thus places over against the great danger the omnipotent God, and drowns, as it were in an anthem, the wickedness of the whole world and of hell, just as a great fire consumes a little drop of water [LUTHER].","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 124","type":"page"}