Our help is in the name of Jehovah.; he made the heavens and the earth.

Song of ascensions to David. Unless Jehovah was to us, now shall Israel say,

Our soul as a sparrow was delivered from the snare of the fowlers: the snare was broken and we were delivered.

Unless Jehovah was to us in the rising up of man against us,

Blessed be Jehovah, who gave us not a prey to their teeth.

Then the waters overflowed us, the torrent passed over our soul:

Then they swallowed us down living, in the kindling of their anger against us:

Then the swelling waters passed over our soul.