1What if the Lord had not been on our side?
(Let Israel repeat this.)
2What if the Lord had not been on our side
when men attacked us?
3When they were angry with us,
they would have swallowed us alive.
4They would have been like a flood drowning us.
They would have poured over us like a river.
5They would have swept us away like a mighty stream.
6Praise the Lord.
He did not let them chew us up.
7We have escaped like a bird
from the hunter’s trap.
The trap has been broken,
and we have escaped.
8Our help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.