1 You Israeli people, answer this question:

What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been ◄helping/fighting for► us?

2 When our enemies attacked us,

if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,

3 we would have all been killed [IDM]

because they were very angry with us!

4 They would have been like [MET] a flood that swept/carried us away;

it would have been as though the water would have covered us,

5 and we would all have drowned in the flood that was ◄raging/flowing very fast►.

6 But praise Yahweh,

because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us

like wild animals [MET] tear apart the creatures that they capture.

7 We have escaped from our enemies like a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set;

it is as though the trap that our enemies set for us was broken

and we have escaped from it!

8 Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY];

he is the one who made heaven and the earth.