Psalms 124

1 A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY DAVID. If YHWH had not been for us (Pray, let Israel say),

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

2 If YHWH had not been for us, In the rising up of man against us,

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

3 Then they had swallowed us alive, In the burning of their anger against us,

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

4 Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,

[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,

5 Then proud waters had passed over our soul.

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

6 Blessed [is] YHWH who has not given us, [As] prey to their teeth.

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

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

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!

8 Our help [is] in the Name of YHWH, Maker of the heavens and earth!

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