A song of the ascents: of David.{HR}If [it were] not Jehovah who was for us,{HR}Let now Israel say;
If [it were] not Jehovah who was for us{HR}In man’s rising up against us,
Then they had swallowed us up alive{HR}In the kindling of their wrath against us.
Then the waters had overflowed us;{HR}The stream had passed over our soul.
Then had passed over our soul the proud waters.
Blessed [be] Jehovah,{HR}Who gave us not a prey to their teeth!
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of fowlers’ snare;{HR}The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Our help [is] in Jehovah’s name,{HR}Who made heaven and earth.