A Song of Ascents. By David.

• ¹If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
• let Israel now say,

• ²if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
• when men rose up against us;

• ³then they would have swallowed us up alive,
• when their wrath was kindled against us;

• ⁴then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
• the stream would have gone over our soul;

• ⁵then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

• ⁶Blessed be Yahweh,
• who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

• ⁷Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare.
• The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

• ⁸Our help is in the name of Yahweh,
• who made heaven and earth.