Commentary on Psalms Volume 3 John Calvin (continued)
Psalm 124
PSALM 124
The Church having been providentially delivered from extreme peril, David exhorts true believers to thanksgiving, and teaches them by this memorable example, that their safety depends solely upon the grace and power of God.
A Song of Degrees of David.
Psalm 124:1-5
1. But for Jehovah, who was on our side, may Israel now say; 2. But for Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us; 3. They had then swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; 4. The waters had then overwhelmed us, the torrent had gone over our soul: 5. The proud waters 518 had then gone over our soul.
1. But for Jehovah, who was on our side. Some expositors think that this Psalm describes the very sad and calamitous condition of the Church when the, residue of the people were carried away into Babylon. This opinion is, however, without any good foundation for the complaints made, apply with equal propriety to the persecutions which the Church suffered under the tyranny of Antiochus Epiphanes. It is another objection to this
"Alors les eaux enfiees et impetueuses fussent," etc. — Fr. "The swollen and impetuous waters had then," etc. The epithet proud is applied to the waves of the sea in Job 38:11.