The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 If God hadn't been for us - all together now, Israel, sing out! -
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<<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say,
2 If God hadn't been for us when everyone went against us,
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If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, When men rose up against us;
3 We would have been swallowed alive by their violent anger,
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Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
4 Swept away by the flood of rage, drowned in the torrent;
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Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;
5 We would have lost our lives in the wild, raging water.
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Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6 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.
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Blessed be Yahweh, Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 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.
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Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8 God's strong name is our help, the same God who made heaven and earth.
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Our help is in the name of Yahweh, Who made heaven and earth.
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