| A pilgrimage song. Of David. 1 If the LORD hadn’t been for us— let Israel now repeat!— 2 if the LORD hadn’t been for us, when those people attacked us 3 then they would have swallowed us up whole with their rage burning against us! 4 Then the waters would have drowned us; the torrent would have come over our necks; 5 then the raging waters would have come over our necks! 6 Bless the LORD because he didn’t hand us over like food for our enemies’ teeth! 7 We escaped like a bird from the hunters’ trap; the trap was broken so we escaped! 8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. |