Psalm 124 | Liturgical Calendar

1

If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say: *

if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us,

2

Then would they have swallowed us up alive, *

when they were so wrathfully displeased with us;

3

Then the waters would have drowned us, and the torrent gone over us; *

then the raging waters would have gone clean over us.

4

But praised be the Lord *

who has not given us over to be prey for their teeth.

5

We escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowler; *

the snare is broken, and we have been delivered.

6

Our help is in the Name of the Lord, *

the maker of heaven and earth.