1The song of the stairs. If it the LORD had not been of our side (now may Israel say)
2If the LORD had not been of our side, when men rose up against us.
3They had swallowed us up quick, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.
4Yea the waters had drowned us, the stream had gone over our soul.
5The deep waters of the proud had gone even unto our soul.
6But praised be the LORD, which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.
7Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken and we are delivered.
8Our help standeth in the name of the LORD, which hath made heaven and earth.