1 If the Lord had not been for us, now may Israel say,

2 If the Lord had not been for us, when men rose up against us,

3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;

5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

6 Blessed be the Lord, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.