# Psalms 124.8

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**Book:** [Psalms](/codex/psalms/) · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 6. Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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> **8. Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.** (Psalms 124:6-8, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 6. Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7. Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
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> **8. Our help is in Yahweh’s name, who made heaven and earth.** (Psalms 124:6-8, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 6. Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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> **8. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.** (Psalms 124:6-8, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 6. Blessed [is] Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth. 7. Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.
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> **8. Our help [is] in the name of Jehovah, Maker of the heavens and earth!** (Psalms 124:6-8, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** various (David majority; Asaph, Korah, Moses, Solomon, anonymous)
- **Audience:** worshipping Israel (corporate + individual devotion)
- **Location:** Israel, various periods
- **Time period:** composition spans c. 1400 BC (Moses, Ps 90), c. 400 BC; principal Davidic composition c. 1000 BC

## Theological reading

## Key words

- [H3068 - YHWH](/codex/h3068-yhwh/), *YHWH* (Strong's H3068). Also appears in: [Genesis 2.4](/codex/genesis-2-4/), [Genesis 2.7](/codex/genesis-2-7/), [Genesis 2.16-17](/codex/genesis-2-16-17/).
- [H6213 - asah](/codex/h6213-asah/), *asah* (Strong's H6213). Also appears in: [Genesis 1.14-19](/codex/genesis-1-14-19/), [Genesis 1.24-28](/codex/genesis-1-24-28/), [Genesis 1.26](/codex/genesis-1-26/).
- [H8034 - shem](/codex/h8034-shem/), *shem* (Strong's H8034). Also appears in: [Genesis 3](/codex/genesis-3/), [Genesis 4.26](/codex/genesis-4-26/), [Genesis 6.4](/codex/genesis-6-4/).

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.

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## Quoted in

**Lexicon:**

- [G3686 - onoma](/codex/g3686-onoma/)

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