Psalm 124

New International Reader's Version

A song for those who go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. A psalm of David.

124 Here is what Israel should say.
    Suppose the Lord had not been on our side.
²Suppose the Lord had not been on our side
    when our enemies attacked us.
³Suppose he had not been on our side
    when their burning anger blazed out against us.
    Then they would have swallowed us alive.
⁴They would have been like a flood that drowned us.
    They would have swept over us like a rushing river.
⁵They would have washed us away
    like a swollen stream.

⁶Give praise to the Lord.
    He has not let our enemies chew us up.
⁷We have escaped like a bird
    from a hunter’s trap.
The trap has been broken,
    and we have escaped.
⁸Our help comes from the Lord.
    He is the Maker of heaven and earth.