A community helps one another escape rushing water as a small bird flies from an opened net

Psalm 124

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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.
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1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY DAVID. If YHWH had not been for us || (Pray, let Israel say),
2If YHWH had not been for us, || In the rising up of man against us,
3Then they had swallowed us alive, || In the burning of their anger against us,
4Then the waters had overflowed us, || The stream passed over our soul,
5Then proud waters had passed over our soul.
6Blessed [is] YHWH who has not given us, || [As] prey to their teeth.
7Our soul has escaped as a bird from a snare of fowlers, || The snare was broken, and we have escaped.
8Our help [is] in the Name of YHWH, || Maker of the heavens and earth!
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