John Calvin Commentary Psalms 124:6

"Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth." — Psalms 124:6 (ASV)

Blessed be Jehovah! The Psalmist now exhorts the godly to a grateful acknowledgment of the divine goodness, and so to speak, puts words into their mouths. Here he also shows by another analogy that it would have been all over with them if God had not helped them, affirming that they were delivered just as if someone had plucked the prey from the teeth of a wild and cruel beast.

The third analogy has a similar meaning: they were on all sides entrapped and entangled in the snares of their enemies, just as little birds are caught in the net spread by the fowler. When they were delivered, it was just as if one set free birds that had been caught. The point is that the people of God, weak, without counsel, and lacking aid, not only had to deal with bloodthirsty and furious beasts but were also ensnared by bird-nets and stratagems. Consequently, being greatly inferior to their enemies both in strategy and in open force, they were besieged by many forms of death. From this, it can be easily concluded that they were miraculously preserved.