Psalm 124

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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If the LORD had not been on our side

¹A song of ascents. Of David. Let Israel say it now: if the LORD had not stood with us, ²if the LORD had not stood with us when people rose up against us, ³then they would have devoured us alive in the heat of their anger against us, ⁴then the floodwaters would have carried us off, a torrent would have rushed over us, ⁵then the raging waters would have closed over us. ⁶Blessed be the LORD! He did not give us up to be torn apart by their teeth. ⁷We have slipped free like a bird from the bird-catchers’ trap; the trap is broken, and we are free! ⁸We find our help in the name of the LORD, the one who made heaven and earth.