PSALM 124

¹A song of ascents for David.

    Were it not the LORD Who was for us

          —let Israel now say—

    ²were it not the LORD Who was for us

          when people rose against us,

    ³then they would have swallowed us alive

          when their wrath flared hot against us.

    ⁴Then the waters would have swept us up,

          the torrent come up past our necks.

    ⁵Then it would have come up past our necks—

          the raging waters.

    ⁶Blessed is the LORD,

          Who did not make us prey for their teeth.

    ⁷Our life is like a bird escaped

          from the snare of the fowlers.

          The snare was broken

          and we escaped.

    ⁸Our help is in the name of the LORD,

          maker of heaven and earth.