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. “If Yahweh had not been on our side,” let Israel say now,

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

“if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side when men rose up against us,

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

then they would have swallowed us up alive when their anger raged 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,

The water would have swept us away; the torrent would have overwhelmed us.

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

Then the raging waters would have drowned us.”

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].

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not allowed us 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 have escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.

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

Our help is in Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.