
Psalm 124 - Nisi quia Dominus

1   If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say: +
    if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us,

2   Then would they have swallowed us up alive, +
    when they were so wrathfully displeased with us;

3   Then the waters would have drowned us, and the torrent gone over us; +
    then the raging waters would have gone clean over us.

4   But praised be the Lord, +
    who has not given us over to be prey for their teeth.

5   We escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowler; +
    the snare is broken, and we have been delivered.

6   Our help is in the Name of the Lord, +
    the maker of heaven and earth.
