Psalms 124

1 You Israeli [people], [answer this question]: What [would have happened to us] if Yahweh had not been (helping/fighting for) us?

“A song of the degrees by David.” If it had not been the Lord who was for us, so should Israel say;

2 When [our enemies] attacked us, if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,

If it had not been the Lord who was for us, when men rose up against us:

3 we would have all been killed [IDM] because they were very angry with us!

Then would they have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

4 [They would have been like] [MET] a flood that swept/carried us away; [it would have been as though] the water would have covered us,

Then would the waters have overwhelmed us, the stream would have passed over our soul;

5 and we would [all] have drowned in the flood that was (raging/flowing very fast).

Then would have passed over our soul the presumptuous waters.

6 [But] praise Yahweh, because he has not allowed our [enemies to destroy us] [like wild animals] [MET] tear apart [the creatures that they capture].

Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us up as a prey to their teeth.

7 We have escaped [from our enemies] like a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set; [it is as though] the trap [that our enemies set for us] was broken and we have escaped from it!

Our soul is escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

8 Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY]; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.

Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.