Psalm 124

New Century Version

The Lord Saves His People

A song for going up to worship. Of David.

124 What if the Lord had not been on our side?
    (Let Israel repeat this.)
²What if the Lord had not been on our side
    when we were attacked?
³When they were angry with us,
    they would have swallowed us alive.
⁴They would have been like a flood drowning us;
    they would have poured over us like a river.
⁵They would have swept us away like a mighty stream.

⁶Praise the Lord,
    who did not let them chew us up.
⁷We escaped like a bird
    from the hunter’s trap.
The trap broke,
    and we escaped.
⁸Our help comes from the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth.