Psalms 124 · Verse 8

Psalms 124:8

Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 124:8, King James Version

Psalms 124:8 in other translations

BSBOur help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
WEBOur help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.
ASVOur help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
YLTOur help is in the name of Jehovah, Maker of the heavens and earth!
DARBYOur help is in the name of Jehovah, the maker of heavens and earth.
BBEOur help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
WebsterOur help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

What does Psalms 124:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. (Compare Psa 121:2). name--in the usual sense (Psa 5:11; 20:1). He thus places over against the great danger the omnipotent God, and drowns, as it were in an anthem, the wickedness of the whole world and of hell, just as a great fire consumes a little drop of water [Luther].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 124:6-8

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, and to hold them there. Sometimes they seem to prevail; but in the Lord let us put our trust, and we shall not be put to confusion. The believer will ascribe all the honour of his salvation, to the power, mercy, and truth of God, and look back with wonder and…

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Psalms 124:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֶ֭זְרֵנוּ'Ez.re.nuhelp ourH5828
בְּשֵׁ֣םbe.Shem[is] in [the] name ofH8034
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
עֹ֝שֵׂ֗ה'o.Sehmaker ofH6213
שָׁמַ֥יִםsha.Ma.yimheavenH8064
וָאָֽרֶץ\׃va.'A.retzand earthH776

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 124:8

  • Psalms 121:2

    My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

  • Acts 4:24

    And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

  • Jeremiah 32:17

    Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

  • Psalms 146:5-6

    Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

  • Psalms 115:15

    Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

  • Genesis 1:1

    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

  • Psalms 134:3

    The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

  • Isaiah 37:16-20

    O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
115:15; 121:2; 134:3; 146:5,6; Ge 1:1; Isa 37:16-20; Jer 32:17
Ac 4:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 124:7

    Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

  • Psalms 124:8

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

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Psalms 124:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Nuestro socorro es en el nombre de Jehová, que hizo el cielo y la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Notre secours est dans le nom de l’ Éternel, qui a fait les cieux et la terre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Unsere Hülfe ist im Namen Jehovas, der Himmel und Erde gemacht hat.