Psalm 124

¹“If the Lord had not been on our side” –

let Israel say this! –

²if the Lord had not been on our side,

when men attacked us,

³they would have swallowed us alive,

when their anger raged against us.

⁴The water would have overpowered us;

the current would have overwhelmed us.

⁵The raging water

would have overwhelmed us.

⁶The Lord deserves praise,[#tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”]

for he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

⁷We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare.[#tn Heb “our life escaped.”]

The snare broke, and we escaped.

⁸Our deliverer is the Lord ,[#tn Heb “our help [is] in the name of the Lord.”]

the Creator of heaven and earth.