Our Help Is in the Name of the Lord
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
124If it had not been the Lord who was on our side— let Israel now say—
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if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when people rose up against us,
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then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
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then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;
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then over us would have gone the raging waters.
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Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!
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We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
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Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.