Psalms 124:8

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME (I:E., THE MANIFESTED GRACE AND MIGHT) OF THE LORD, WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH - (; cf. .)...

8._Our help is in the name of Jehovah. _David here extends to the state of the Church in all ages that which the faithful had already experienced. As I interpret the verse, he not only gives thanks to God for one benefit, but affirms that the Church cannot continue safe except in so far as she is protected by the hand of God. His object is to animate the children of God with the assured hope, that their life is in perfect safety under the divine guardianship. The contrast between the help of God, and other resources in which the world vainly confides, as we have seen in Psalms 20:7 _, _ “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God_, _” is to be noticed, that the faithful, purged from all false confidence, may betake themselves exclusively to his succor, and depending upon it, may fearlessly despise whatever Satan

6-8 God is the Author of all our deliverances, and he must have the glory. The enemies lay snares for God's people, to bring them into sin and trouble, and to hold them there. Sometimes they seem to prevail; but in the Lord let us put our trust, and we shall not be put to confusion. The believer will ascribe all the honour of his salvation, to the power, mercy, and truth of God, and look back with wonder and thanksgiving on the way in which the Lord has led him. Let us rejoice that our help for the time to come is in him who made heaven and earth...

Verse Psalms 124:8. _OUR HELP_ IS _IN THE NAME OF THE LORD_] בשום מימרא דיי _beshum meywra depai_, Chaldee, "In the name of the WORD of the LORD." So in the second verse, "Unless the WORD of the LORD had been our Helper:" _the substantial WORD_; not a _word spoken_, or a _prophecy_ delivered, but the person who was afterwards termed Ὁ Λογος του Θεου, the WORD OF GOD. This deliverance of the Jews appears to me the most natural interpretation of this Psalm: and probably _Mordecai_ was the author. ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH PSALM The people of God, newly escaped from some great danger, acknowledge it, and celebrate God as their Deliverer. I. The psalmist begins abruptly, as is usual in pathetical expressions. 1. "If it had not been the Lord:...

OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD - In the Lord; in the great Yahweh. See Psalms 121:2. WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH - The great Creator; the true God. Our deliverances have led us up to him. They are such as can be ascribed to him alone. They could not have come from ourselves; from our fellow-men; from angels; from any or all created beings. Often in life, when delivered from danger, we may feel this; we always may feel this, and should feel this, when we think of the redemption of our souls. That is a work which we of ourselves could never have performed; which could not have been done for us by our fellow-men; which no angel could have accomplished; which all creation combined could not have worked out; which could have been effected by no one but by him who “made heaven and earth;” by him who created all things. Se

EXPOSITION "A FRESH, bright lyric" (Cheyne), composed of two stanzas—the first part (Psalms 124:1) recounting a danger and a deliverance; the second (Psalms 124:6), praising God for the latter. This is another of the psalms in this "Little Psalter," ascribed by its title to David. There is nothing in the style, or in the contents, that is inconsistent with the ascription. PSALMS 124:1 IF IT HAD NOT BEEN THE LORD WHO WAS ON OUR SIDE, NOW MAY ISRAEL SAY; rather, _now let Israel say _(Kay, Cheyne, Revised Version). PSALMS 124:2

OUR HELP [IS] IN THE NAME OF THE LORD,.... This is the conclusion the church draws from the scene of Providence in her favour; this is the instruction she learns from hence, that her help is in the Lord only, and not in any creature; and that it is right to put her trust and confidence in the Lord for it, and only to expect it from him whose name is in himself; and is a strong tower to flee unto for safety, Proverbs 18:10. The Targum is, "in the name of the Word of the Lord;'' in the Messiah; in whom the name of the Lord is, his nature and perfections; and in whom help is found, being laid upon him, Exodus 23:21; WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH; and therefore must be able to help his people, and to do more for them than they are able to ask or think: for what is it

Psalms 124:1. _If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed us up quick,_ That is, alive, Psalms 124:3. _When their wrath was kindled against us:_ If it had not been God who had engaged to take care of his people, they would all have perished, but that God must be Jehovah. I wish that our translators had not been carried away by the superstition of the Jews, and that they had used the word «Jehovah» where it is employed in the original. This verse and the previous one would have read, «If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed us up alive,» as some beasts, and birds, and fishes sw

PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrate the feasts of the Lord--”Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.” They are indeed Psalms of “the goings-up” for we rise higher and higher as we read through them. Prophetically they give us again the steps from trial and suffering to the glorious consummation. As they are so simple in language and construction no lengthy annotations are needed. Psalms 120:1 begins with distress, picturing again the suffering of the righteous godly remnant. In Psalms 121:1 the Keeper of Israel, the Covenant Keeping God, is revealed

CXXIV. A SONG OF DELIVERANCE FROM FOREIGN FOES....