Our deliverer is the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth.

A song of ascents, by David. "If the Lord had not been on our side" -- let Israel say this! --

We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter's snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

if the Lord had not been on our side, when men attacked us,

The Lord deserves praise, for he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.

they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.

The raging water would have overwhelmed us.