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The raging water
would have overwhelmed us.[a]
The Lord deserves praise,[b]
for[c] he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.
We escaped with our lives,[d] like a bird from a hunter’s snare.
The snare broke, and we escaped.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 124:5 tn Heb “then they would have passed over our being, the raging waters.”
  2. Psalm 124:6 tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”
  3. Psalm 124:6 tn Heb “[the one] who.”
  4. Psalm 124:7 tn Heb “our life escaped.”