✧A Song of Ascents; of David. If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, Let Israel now say, ✧2If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us; ✧3Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us: ✧4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul; ✧5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. ✧6Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. ✧7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped. ✧8Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.