Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. A Song of Ascents.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream 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.