Psalm

—Let Israel now say—

 2 “If Jehovah had not been with us+

When men rose up to attack us,+

 3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive+

When their anger was burning against us.+

 4 Then the waters would have washed us away,

The torrent would have swept over us.*+

 6 May Jehovah be praised,

For he has not given us as prey to their teeth.

 7 We are* like a bird that escaped

From the hunter’s trap;+

The trap was broken,

And we escaped.+

 8 Our help is in the name of Jehovah,+

The Maker of heaven and earth.”