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Psalm 124:6

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.
5Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.
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The teeth make the danger concrete: this praise comes from people who faced destruction and credit YHWH with keeping them from becoming their enemies’ prey.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 41:11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.Both speakers recognize God’s care in an enemy’s failure to triumph over them.
Psalm 118:13You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me.Both passages acknowledge an enemy’s force and credit the LORD with help against that threat.
Exodus 15:9–10The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy …Exodus records an enemy’s intent to destroy and plunder; the psalm blesses the LORD for preventing enemies from devouring his people.
Psalm 145:5–6I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor, on your wondrous works.Both passages honor God for what he does, with Psalm 124 naming rescue and Psalm 145 speaking of wondrous works.
Isaiah 10:14–19My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who …Both passages portray threatened people through images of vulnerable creatures, though Isaiah records the conqueror’s boast.
Psalm 17:9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.Both passages describe enemies as a mortal threat, with Psalm 124 praising the LORD for escape from their power.
1 Samuel 26:20Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a …Both passages compare threatened people to hunted creatures, making the danger of human pursuit concrete.
Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.Both passages picture rescue as release from an oppressor’s teeth; Job describes his intervention, while the psalm credits the LORD.
Judges 5:30–31‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments …Both texts depict people treated as something to seize: prey in the psalm and women counted among plunder in Judges.
2 Samuel 18:28Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is the LORD your God, who …Both passages bless the LORD for deliverance from people who threatened violence.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

Praise here leaves room to name the threat without softening it. The people remember the teeth, and they bless YHWH because he did not surrender them as prey.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).