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.