"A Song of degrees of David." If [it had not been] the LORD who was (a) on our side, now may Israel say; (a) He shows that God was ready to help at need and that there was no other way to be saved, but by this means alone.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then they had swallowed us up (b) quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: (b) So unable were we to resist.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the (c) waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: (c) He uses proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of which God miraculously delivered them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the (d) snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. (d) For the wicked not only furiously rage against the faithful, but craftily imagined to destroy them.... [ Continue Reading ]