Psalm 124

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say: if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us,

Then would they have swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased with us;

Then the waters would have drowned us, and the torrent gone over us; then the raging waters would have gone clean over us.

But praised be the Lord, who has not given us over to be prey for their teeth.

We escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken, and we have been delivered.

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