Our Help Is in the Name of Yahweh – Psalm 124

This enlightening description is given on edible.com of the fowler’s snare:

In the days previous to firearms, birds were captured with nets spread on the ground, in traps and snares. There was a method of taking young birds from a nest, raising them by hand, and when they had become very tame, they were confined in hidden cages so that their voices would call others of their kind to the spot and they could be killed by arrows of concealed bowmen or the use of the throw-stick (Ecclesiasticus 11:30) This was a stick 1 1/2 feet in length and 1/2 inches in diameter, hurled with a rotary motion at the legs of the birds and was very effective when thrown into flocks of ground birds, such as partridge or quail, especially if the birds were running up hill.

Over half a dozen Hebrew words are used to indicate different methods of taking birds and animals, of which the snare (pach) is mentioned oftener than any other. It was a noose of hair for small birds, of wire for larger birds or smaller animals. The snares were set in a favorable location and grain scattered to attract the attention of feathered creatures. They accepted the bribe of good feeding and walked into the snare, not suspecting danger. For this reason, the snare became particularly applicable in describing a tempting bribe offered by men to lead their fellows into trouble, and the list of references is a long one, all of the same nature. See Exodus 10:7; 1 Samuel 18:21; 1 Samuel 28:9; Psalm 11:6; Psalm 18:5, “snares of death”; used symbolically of anything that may kill: Psalm 91:3; 124:7.

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side—let Israel now say—if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; then over us would have gone the raging waters.

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!  We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!    

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  (Psalm 124 ESV)

Has God given you a deliverance against impossible odds?  Has He spared you from a massive flood of danger?  You should have been destroyed or ruined but He made your way of escape?  Our help is in the name of Yahweh who made heaven and earth.  Nothing is beyond His ability.  Nothing!