Psalm 124
JPS TaNaKH 1917
Chapter overview
Psalm 124 imagines what would have happened without divine help: enemies, anger, flood, and teeth would have consumed the people. Instead, the prey escapes the broken snare and gratefully names its rescuer.
EscapeHelpDangerThanksgiving
1A Song of Ascents; of David. 'If it had not been the LORD who was for us', let Israel now say;
2'If it had not been the LORD who was for us, when men rose up against us,
3Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul;
5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.'
6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
JPS TaNaKH 1917 — Public Domain. Where these translations come from.