@Ps 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 (@Ps 56:9).
now--or, "oh! let Israel"
2. rose . . . against, &c.--(@Ps 3:1 56:11).
3. Then--that is, the time of our danger.
quick--literally, "living" (@Nu 16:32,33),
description of ferocity.
4, 5. (Compare @Ps 18:4,16).
5. The epithet proud added to waters denotes insolent enemies.
6, 7. The figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast (@Ps 3:7), and then of a fowler (@Ps 91:3), complete escape is denoted by breaking the net.
8. (Compare @Ps 121:2).
name--in the usual sense (@Ps 5:11 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].