Psalmorum 124

1 Canticum graduum. Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israel:

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

2 nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, Cum exurgerent homines in nos,

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

3 forte vivos deglutissent nos: Cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos,

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

4 forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos.

[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 Torrentem pertransivit anima nostra: forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem.

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

6 Benedictus Dominus qui non dedit nos, in captionem dentibus eorum.

[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 Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium: Laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus.

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 Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit caelum et terram.

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