A psalm written by David for people going up to the temple to worship

1You Israeli people, answer this question:
What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been ◄helping/fighting for► us?

2When our enemies attacked us,
if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,

3we would have all been killed [IDM] because they were very angry with us!

4They would have been like [MET] a flood that swept/carried us away;
it would have been as though the water would have covered us,

5and we would all have drowned in the flood that was ◄raging/flowing very fast►.

6But praise Yahweh, because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us
like wild animals [MET] tear apart the creatures that they capture.

7We have escaped from our enemies like a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set;
it is as though the trap that our enemies set for us was broken and we have escaped from it!

8Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY]; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.