‘If it had not been the Lord who was for us’,

Let Israel now say;

2‘If it had not been the Lord who was for us,

When men rose up against us,

3Then they had swallowed us up alive,

When their wrath was kindled against us;

4Then the waters had overwhelmed us,

The stream had gone over our soul;

5Then the proud waters

Had gone over our soul.’

6Blessed be the Lord,

Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers;

The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

8Our help is in the name of the Lord,

Who made heaven and earth.