The Book of Psalms

[A Song of Ascents, of David.] Except that [it was] Jehovah who was for us, O may Israel say;

except that [it was] Jehovah who was for us when men rose up against us,

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger glowed against us.

Then the waters would have flowed over us; the torrent would have covered our soul;

then the raging waters would have passed over our soul.

Blessed [be] Jehovah, who did not give us [as] a prey to their teeth.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowlers' snare; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Our help [is] in the name of Jehovah, the Maker of the heavens and earth.