Psalms 124

  1. 1

    A song of ascents; by David. “If the Lord had not been on our side”— let Israel say this.—

  2. 2

    if the Lord had not been on our side, when men attacked us,

  3. 3

    they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.

  4. 4

    The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.

  5. 5

    The raging water would have overwhelmed us.

  6. 6

    The Lord deserves praise, for he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

  7. 7

    We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

  8. 8

    Our deliverer is the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth.