1 The song of degrees of David. Israel say now, No but for the Lord was in us; (A song by David for steps of ascending. Let Israel say now, If the Lord was not with us or If the Lord had not been for us,)

2 no but for the Lord was in us. When men rose up against us; (yea, if the Lord was not with us or if the Lord had not been for us; then when men rose up against us,)

3 in hap they had swallowed us quick. When the strong vengeance of them was wroth against us; (they would have swallowed us up alive. Yea, when their fury raged against us;)

4 in hap water had swallowed us up. Our soul passed through a strand; (the water would have swallowed us up. When the stream had gone up over our heads;)

5 in hap our soul had passed through a water unsufferable. (when the insufferable waters had gone up over our heads.)

6 Blessed be the Lord; that gave not us into taking, [(or) the catching], of the teeth of them. (Blessed be the Lord; who did not allow us to be caught by their teeth.)

7 Our soul, as a sparrow, is delivered; from the snare of hunters. The snare is all-broken; and we be delivered. (We have escaped, like a sparrow, from the hunter’s snare. The snare is all-broken; and we be set free.)

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord; that made heaven and earth (or who made heaven and earth).

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