Psalm 124. Nisi quia Dominus.

1. IF the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say; *
   if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;
2. They had swallowed us up alive; *
   when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.
3. Yea, the waters had drowned us, *
   and the stream had gone over our soul.
4. The deep waters of the proud *
   had gone even over our soul.
5. But praised be the Lord, *
   who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.
6. Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; *
   the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
7. Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord, *
   who hath made heaven and earth.