Our Help is in the Name of the LORD
A Song of Ascents. By David.
1 If the LORD had not been on our side,
let Israel now say,
2 if the LORD had not been on our side,
when men rose up against us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive,
when their wrath burned against us,
4 then the waters would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have gone over us;
5 then the proud waters would have overwhelmed us.
6 Blessed be the LORD,
who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare.
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.