Psalms 124



124

A song of David for going up to the Temple.[602]

<1> What would have happened to us

if the Lord had not been on our side?

Tell us about it, Israel.

<2> What would have happened to us

if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us?

<3> They would have swallowed us alive

whenever they became angry with us.

<4> Their armies would have been

like a flood washing over us,

like a river drowning us.

<5> Those proud people would have been

like water rising up to our mouth and drowning us.

<6> Praise the Lord!

The Lord did not let our enemies

catch us and kill us like prey in the teeth of a predator.

<7> We are like a bird that was

trapped in a net and then escaped.

The net broke, and we escaped!

<8> But our help came from the Lord,

the one who made heaven and earth!

 

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