1<> "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side"--now may Israel say--
2"if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us,
3then would they have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us;
4then would the waters have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
5then the proud waters would have gone over our soul."
6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.