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Psalm 124 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1895
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

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RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Song of Ascents; of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say;
1 A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:
3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
5 Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
8 Our help is in Yahweh’s name, who made heaven and earth.
Cross references (8)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Romans 8:31; Psalm 56:9; Psalm 54:4; Psalm 120:1; Hebrews 13:5–6
  2. 2 Psalm 22:12–13; Psalm 37:32; Psalm 22:16; Psalm 3:1; Psalm 21:1–2
  3. 3 Psalm 57:3; Matthew 2:16; Esther 3:12–13; Numbers 16:30–34; Acts 9:2
  4. 4 Revelation 17:15; Psalm 69:15; Revelation 12:15–16; Isaiah 8:7–8; Psalm 69:2
  5. 5 Job 38:11; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 93:3–4
  6. 6 Psalm 118:13; Exodus 15:9–10; Psalm 145:5–6; Isaiah 10:14–19; Psalm 17:9
  7. 7 Psalm 91:3; Proverbs 6:5; 2 Timothy 2:26; Psalm 25:15; 1 Samuel 25:29
  8. 8 Psalm 121:2; Acts 4:24; Jeremiah 32:17; Psalm 146:5–6; Psalm 115:15

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXIII)

    Let this singer ascend; and let this man sing from the heart of each of you, and let each of you be this man, for when each of you saith this, since ye are all one in Christ, one man saith this; and saith not, "Unto Thee, O Lord, have" we "lift up" our "eyes;" but, "Unto Thee, O Lord, …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 124:8 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter X)

    For the Framer [Demiurge] of the entire universe made promise to David, as David himself declares: "My help is from God, who made heaven and earth;" and again: "In His hand are the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are His.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 124:5 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters VI–XI)

    … by the love of freedom from care; that we may lift our hearts unto Thee where Thy Spirit is "borne over the waters;" and that we may come to that pre-eminent rest, when our soul shall have passed through the waters which have no substance. Chapter VIII — That Nothing Whatever, Short of God, Can Yield to the Rational Creature …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 124:8 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Preface)

    … (Demiurge), thus speaks in Deuteronomy: "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth." Again, David saying that his help came from the Lord, asserts: "My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." And Esaias confesses that words were uttered by God, who made heaven and earth, and …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)