For my blog post today about Psalm 124, I will quote from this United Church of God commentary, which quotes the Zondervan Student Bible:
"Yet
God has given deliverance, seen also in the figure of a bird escaping
the fowler's snare-the trap of a bird trapper (compare 91:3). The Zondervan Student Bible comments:
'"Some trouble is quick-bang and it's over…but with other trouble,
trying to escape only gets you more deeply entangled…if you try to undo
the damage, you only make it worse. That's exactly the picture of 'the
fowler's snare.' The bird that caught its neck in the noose only
tightened the snare's choke-hold by struggling. The bird could not get
out by its own effort. But this time, says David, the snare has
miraculously broken, and the bird has flown to safety. When you escape
that way, there's only one person to thank: the Lord' (note on verse
7)."