Psalm 124

¹If the Lord had not been on our side, *let Israel now say;

²If the Lord had not been on our side, *when enemies rose up against us;

³Then would they have swallowed us up alive *in their fierce anger toward us;

⁴Then would the waters have overwhelmed us *and the torrent gone over us;

⁵Then would the raging waters *have gone right over us.

⁶Blessed be the Lord! *he has not given us over to be a prey for their teeth.

⁷We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; *the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

⁸Our help is in the Name of the Lord, *the maker of heaven and earth.