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The Helpless Bird, The Broken Snare
Commentators explain the verse's powerful imagery: a helpless bird caught in a hunter's trap. This represents feeling completely ensnared by enemies, sin, or overwhelming circumstances. The escape is not due to the bird's own strength, but because an outside force—God—miraculously breaks the snare itself, signifying a sudden and complete deliverance from a hopeless situation.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 124:7
18th Century
Theologian
Our soul is escaped - We have escaped; our life has been preserved.
As a bird out of the snare of the fowlers -<…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 124:7
19th Century
Bishop
Snare. —Another rapid transition to a favourite figure, that of the hunter’s net. (Compare to Psalm 10:9 and others.)
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 124:7
19th Century
Preacher
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
What a joyous song that is …
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John Gill
On Psalms 124:7
17th Century
Pastor
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers ,
&c.] The people of God are like little birds, being harmless a…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 124:6–8
17th Century
Minister
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,…