A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,”Let Israel now say—
2 “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
When men rose up against us,
3 Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
The stream would have gone over our soul;
5 Then the swollen waters
Would have gone over our soul.”
6 Blessed be the LORD,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.
Footnotes:
- Psalm 124:7 That is, persons who catch birds in a trap or snare
