The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 124 -

Our help is in the name of the Lord

You Israelite people, answer this question: What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been helping us?

When our enemies attacked us, if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,

we would have all been killed because they were very angry with us!

They would have been like a flood of water sweeping us away; it would have been as though the water had covered us,

and we would all have drowned in the flood.

But we praise Yahweh because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us.

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!

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

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 men rose up against us,

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.

Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.