< Psalms 124 >

1 You Israeli [people], [answer this question]: What [would have happened to us] if Yahweh had not been (helping/fighting for) us?
大卫上行之诗。 以色列人要说: 若不是耶和华帮助我们,
2 When [our enemies] attacked us, if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,
若不是耶和华帮助我们, 当人起来攻击我们、
3 we would have all been killed [IDM] because they were very angry with us!
向我们发怒的时候, 就把我们活活地吞了。
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,
那时,波涛必漫过我们, 河水必淹没我们,
5 and we would [all] have drowned in the flood that was (raging/flowing very fast).
狂傲的水必淹没我们。
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].
耶和华是应当称颂的! 他没有把我们当野食交给他们吞吃。
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!
我们好像雀鸟,从捕鸟人的网罗里逃脱; 网罗破裂,我们逃脱了。
8 Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY]; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.
我们得帮助, 是在乎倚靠造天地之耶和华的名。

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