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- Chapter 124 -

Our help is in the name of the Lord

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You Israelite people, answer this question: What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been helping us?
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When our enemies attacked us, if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,
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we would have all been killed because they were very angry with us!
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They would have been like a flood of water sweeping us away; it would have been as though the water had covered us,
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and we would all have drowned in the flood.
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But we praise Yahweh because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us.
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We have escaped from our enemies as a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set; it is as though the trap that our enemies set for us was broken and we have escaped from it!
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Yahweh is the one who helps us; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.

Our help is in the name of the Lord

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If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,
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if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
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then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,
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then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.
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Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
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Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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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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Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.