Psalms 124

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

若不是上主保佑我們，唯願以色列子民再說：

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

若不是上主保佑我們，當世人起來攻擊我們，

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

並向我們發洩怒火時，必會活活將我們舌食。

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,

就像淹沒我們的水禍，流過我們頭頸的洪波。

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

又像洶湧澎湃的狂浪，早已將我們淹沒滅亡。

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].

讚美上主，他沒有將我們拋出，使我們做成他爪牙的獵物；

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!

我們像掙脫獵人羅網的小鳥，羅網扯破了，我們自然逃掉。

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

我們的救助是仰賴上主的名，上天和下地都是由他所造成。