Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Thanksgiving for deliverance
1. It is our duty after delivery from dangers to acknowledge not only God’s power for us, but His goodness also towards us, and to acknowledge Him the fountain of all blessedness upon that occasion (verse 6).
2. As the Church’s enemies are superior to her in worldly strength, so also in policy, craftiness, and worldly wit, as the fowler is craftier than the bird.
3. According as the danger is fearful, so is the delivery sweet and joyful (verse 7).
4. It is as easy for God to deliver His people out of their enemies’ hands, even when they have the godly in their power, as to break a net made of thread or yarn, wherewith birds are taken.
5. The fairest fruits of our by-past experience is to glorify God by confidence in Him for time to come.
6. Then is our confidence in God to be delivered from evil well bottomed, when we consider the Lord’s omnipotency manifested in the creation of the world, and held out by His Word unto us: for so much doth the psalmist teach, when he maketh mention of the name of the Lord, and the work of the Lord, in professing of his confidence. (D. Dickson.)