La Bu 124

1 Yahweh Pakai hi eiho langa anapanglou hikhataleh? Israelte jousen velseikit hen.

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

2 Min eina delkhum pettah' un Yahweh Pakai hi eiho langa anapanglou hikhataleh,

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

3 amahon alunghan u deojah pum in ahingin eina vallhum tauvinte.

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

4 Twi chun einachup uvintin, twikhanglen chun einalhohmang diu ahitai.

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

5 Hitiachu ichunguva twipi kitoltol ding ahiuve.

Then would have passed over our soul the presumptuous waters.

6 Igalmiteu einasuhmang sah louva Yahweh Pakai chu thangvahna peuhite.

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

7 Eiho thang kampa a kon a vacha ahoidoh banga hoidoh ihiuve. Thangpou chu akivobong tan eiho ihoidoh tauve.

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

8 Hitobanga kithopina chu vanle lei sem ah Yahweh Pakai a kon a imu' u ahi.

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