English Standard Version
Psalms 124:8
8Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 124:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- New International Version (NIV)Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Context of Psalms 124:8
6Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth! 7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped! Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Read all of Psalms 124Psalms 124:8 word by word
עֶ֭זְרֵנוּ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה עֹ֝שֵׂ֗ה שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָֽרֶץ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 124:8
- Psalms 115:15May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
- Psalms 121:2My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalms 134:3May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!
- Psalms 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
- Genesis 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Isaiah 37:16"O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
- Jeremiah 32:17'Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
- Acts 4:24And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
Commentaries on Psalms 124:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Our help is in the name of the Lord - דיי מימרא בשום 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 ̔ , 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Our help is in the name of the Lord - In the Lord; in the great Yahweh. See Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-8Verses 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8The enemies of God's people were like lions or bears that tear prey with their teeth (see Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 28:15). The Lord shut their mouths (Daniel 6:22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. (Compare Psa 121:2). name--in the usual sense (Psa 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].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 124
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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