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 ascents. Of David. “Had it not been the Lord who was for us” let Israel say

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

“Had it not been the Lord who was for us when enemies rose against us,

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

then alive they’d have swallowed us up, when their anger was kindled 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 would’ve swept us away, and the torrent passed over us clean:

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

then most sure would’ve passed over us clean the wild seething 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].

Blest be the Lord who has given us not to be torn by 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!

We are like a bird just escaped from the snare of the fowler. The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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

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