Psalms 124:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Our help is in the name of the Lord - בשום מימרא דיי beshum meywra depai, Chaldee, "In the name of the Word of the Lord." So in the second verse, "Unless the Word of the Lord had been our Helper:" the substantial Word; not a word spoken, or a prophecy delivered, but the person who was afterwards termed Ὁ Λογος του Θεου, the Word of God. This deliverance of the Jews appears to me the most natural interpretation of this Psalm: and probably Mordecai was the author.

Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].

Psalms 124:8

8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.