- A Song of Ascents. Of David
- 124:1If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, / Let Israel say,
- 124:2If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side / When men rose up against us;
- 124:3Then they would have swallowed us up alive / When their anger burned against us;
- 124:4Then the waters would have washed us away; / The stream would have passed over our soul;
- 124:5Then the proud waters / Would have passed over our soul.
- 124:6Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us / As prey to their teeth.
- 124:7Our soul has escaped like a bird, / Out of the snare of the fowlers; / The snare is broken, / And we have escaped.
- 124:8Our help is in the name of Jehovah, / Who made heaven and earth.