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124:1 The song of degrees of David . Israel say now, No but for the Lord was in us; ( The song of degrees for David . Let Israel say now, If the Lord was not with us/If the Lord had not been for us,) 124:2 no but for the Lord was in us. When men rose up against us; (yea, if the Lord was not with us/if the Lord had not been for us; then when men rose up against us,) 124:3 in hap they had swallowed us quick. When the strong vengeance of them was wroth against us; (they would have swallowed us up alive. Yea, when their fury raged against us;) 124:4 in hap water had swallowed us up. Our soul passed through a strand; (the water would have swallowed us up. When the stream had gone up over our heads;) 124:5 in hap our soul had passed through a water unsufferable. (when the insufferable waters had gone up over our heads.) 124:6 Blessed be the Lord; that gave not us into taking, [( or ) the catching,] of the teeth of them. (Blessed be the Lord; who did not allow us to be caught by their teeth.) 124:7 Our soul, as a sparrow, is delivered; from the snare of hunters. The snare is all-broken; and we be delivered. (We have escaped, like a sparrow, from the hunter’s snare. The snare is all-broken; and we be set free.) 124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord; that made heaven and earth (who made heaven and earth).