A psalm written by David for people going up to the temple to worship
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1 You Israeli people, answer this question:What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been fighting for 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 that swept us away;
it would have been as though the water would have covered us,
5 and we would all have drowned in the flood that was raging.
6 But praise Yahweh
because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us
like wild animals tear apart the creatures that they capture.
7 We have escaped from our enemies like 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.