✧A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say, ✧2if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us, ✧3then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us, ✧4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul. ✧5Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. ✧6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. ✧7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. ✧8Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.