Our Help Is in the Name of the LORD

1Song of ascensions to David. Unless Jehovah was to us, now shall Israel say,

2Unless Jehovah was to us in the rising up of man against us,

3Then they swallowed us down living, in the kindling of their anger against us:

4Then the waters overflowed us, the torrent passed over our soul:

5Then the swelling waters passed over our soul.

6Blessed be Jehovah, who gave us not a prey to their teeth.

7Our soul as a sparrow was delivered from the snare of the fowlers: the snare was broken and we were delivered.

8Our help is in the name of Jehovah; he made the heavens and the earth.