Common English Bible CEB
The Message Bible MSG
1 If the LORD hadn't been for us— let Israel now repeat!—
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If God hadn't been for us - all together now, Israel, sing out! -
2 if the LORD hadn't been for us, when those people attacked us
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If God hadn't been for us when everyone went against us,
3 then they would have swallowed us up whole with their rage burning against us!
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We would have been swallowed alive by their violent anger,
4 Then the waters would have drowned us; the torrent would have come over our necks;
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Swept away by the flood of rage, drowned in the torrent;
5 then the raging waters would have come over our necks!
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We would have lost our lives in the wild, raging water.
6 Bless the LORD because he didn't hand us over like food for our enemies' teeth!
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Oh, blessed be God! He didn't go off and leave us. He didn't abandon us defenseless, helpless as a rabbit in a pack of snarling dogs.
7 We escaped like a bird from the hunters' trap; the trap was broken so we escaped!
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We've flown free from their fangs, free of their traps, free as a bird. Their grip is broken; we're free as a bird in flight.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.
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God's strong name is our help, the same God who made heaven and earth.
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