1The song of degrees of David. Israel say now, No but for the Lord was in us; (A song by David for steps of ascending. Let Israel say now, If the Lord was not with us or If the Lord had not been for us,)

2no but for the Lord was in us. When men rose up against us; (yea, if the Lord was not with us or if the Lord had not been for us; then when men rose up against us,)

3in hap they had swallowed us quick. When the strong vengeance of them was wroth against us; (they would have swallowed us up alive. Yea, when their fury raged against us;)

4in hap water had swallowed us up. Our soul passed through a strand; (the water would have swallowed us up. When the stream had gone up over our heads;)

5in hap our soul had passed through a water unsufferable. (when the insufferable waters had gone up over our heads.)

6Blessed be the Lord; that gave not us into taking, [(or) the catching], of the teeth of them. (Blessed be the Lord; who did not allow us to be caught by their teeth.)

7Our soul, as a sparrow, is delivered; from the snare of hunters. The snare is all-broken; and we be delivered. (We have escaped, like a sparrow, from the hunter’s snare. The snare is all-broken; and we be set free.)

8Our help is in the name of the Lord; that made heaven and earth (or who made heaven and earth).