Psalm 124
A psalm written by David for people going up to the temple to worship.
1 You Israelite people, answer this question:
What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been helping us?
2 When our enemies attacked us,
if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,
3 we would have all been killed
because they were very angry with us!
4 They would have been like a flood of water sweeping us away;
it would have been as though the water had covered us,
5 and we would all have drowned in the flood.
6 But we praise Yahweh
because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us.
7 We have escaped from our enemies as a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set;
it is as though the trap that our enemies set for us was broken
and we have escaped from it!
8 Yahweh is the one who helps us;
he is the one who made heaven and the earth.