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 Ascents, by David. Save [for] Jehovah — who hath been for us, (Pray, let Israel say),

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

Save [for] Jehovah — who hath been for us, In the rising up of man against us,

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

Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger 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 the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,

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

Then passed over our soul had the proud 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 [is] Jehovah who hath not given us, 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 as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have 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 Jehovah, Maker of the heavens and earth!