詩篇 124

1 ダビデがよんだ都もうでの歌 今、イスラエルは言え、主がもしわれらの方におられなかったならば、

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

2 人々がわれらに逆らって立ちあがったとき、主がもしわれらの方におられなかったならば、

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

3 彼らの怒りがわれらにむかって燃えたったとき、彼らはわれらを生きているままで、のんだであろう。

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

4 また大水はわれらを押し流し、激流はわれらの上を越え、

[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 さか巻く水はわれらの上を越えたであろう。

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

6 主はほむべきかな。主はわれらをえじきとして彼らの歯にわたされなかった。

[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 われらは野鳥を捕えるわなをのがれる鳥のようにのがれた。わなは破れてわれらはのがれた。

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 われらの助けは天地を造られた主のみ名にある。

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