The church blesseth God for a miraculous deliverance.
A Song of Degrees of David.
Title. המעלות שׁיר Shiir hammangaloth.] This psalm was composed by David; but the particular occasion of it is not known with any certainty. Dr. Delaney conjectures, that he wrote it upon the victory mentioned 2 Samuel 5:20. David said upon that occasion, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as a breach of waters: and he thinks this conjecture seems probable by comparing this expression with the third and fourth verses of this psalm: the objection to which is, that in the psalm the allusion of the breach of waters is applied to David's enemies; in the history, to God. This psalm was so agreeable to the state of their circumstances at that time, that it was constantly used by the Levites at the return of the Jews from their captivity; and it is, as Dr. Hammond observes, very suitable to any other eminent deliverance wrought by God for his servants.
Psalms 124:1. If it had not been the Lord who was, &c.— Unless the Lord had been with us, now, &c. and so the 2nd verse. Houbigant.