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¹ What if the Lord had not been on our side?
    (Let Israel repeat this.)
² What if the Lord had not been on our side
    when we were attacked?
³ When they were angry with us,
    they would have swallowed us alive.
⁴ They would have been like a flood drowning us;
    they would have poured over us like a river.
⁵ They would have swept us away like a mighty stream.

⁶ Praise the Lord,
    who did not let them chew us up.
⁷ We escaped like a bird
    from the hunter's trap.
The trap broke,
    and we escaped.
⁸ Our help comes from the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth.