Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made the heaven and the earth.

If the LORD had not been for us, now may Israel say,

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.

If the LORD had not been for us, when men rose up against us,

Blessed be the LORD, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.